Which do you trust more: logo accounts or face accounts?
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Evan Prodromoureplied to Jonathan Lamothe last edited by
@me do you feel in touch enough with your intuition that you could gauge your subconscious response?
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CMDR Yojimbosan ⁂replied to Evan Prodromou last edited by
@evan OK, so we don't disagree about the meanings of the words, but I still don't really understand the context of your question, given that there seems to be a large excluded middle and lack of description. I can only assume that this is a subtoot from something relating to #fediforum
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Evan Prodromoureplied to CMDR Yojimbosan ⁂ last edited by
@yojimbo I do polls literally every day with hundreds of respondents. If I wanted to have a more specific question, I'd ask it. I try not to over explain questions because I think it inhibits participation. I'll post more background after the poll is closed.
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CMDR Yojimbosan ⁂replied to Evan Prodromou last edited by
@evan That's cool, I'm not trying to double-guess you here, I just couldn't figure out how to answer this one - so I haven't - and tried to put that into words.
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Evan Prodromoureplied to Evan Prodromou last edited by
Thanks for the replies, all. I'm somewhat face.
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Evan Prodromoureplied to Evan Prodromou last edited by [email protected]
I think when an organization has many employees, members, or other staff on a social network, it has two main ways to represent itself.
One is to let each human person (face account) speak about their own work, and then a brand (logo) account reshares it.
The other is that everything comes through the brand account, and the individual humans aren't given any official voice -- and are maybe discouraged from participating at all.
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Evan Prodromoureplied to Evan Prodromou last edited by
I vastly prefer the first format. People using their own name and likeness have a lot at stake. They aren't hiding behind a corporate shield. They are owning the work they share.
But the second format has become very common, and for news in particular I'm likely to trust brands I know by their logo.
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Evan Prodromoureplied to Evan Prodromou last edited by
One wild thing you see in the startup community is founders that take on the logo of their company as their only avatar, even for unrelated discussions. That's weird; don't do that.
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Evan Prodromoureplied to Evan Prodromou last edited by
In general, a brand logo means a message crafted to manipulate.
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Evan Prodromoureplied to David B. Himself last edited by
@DavidBHimself usually.
Trust is the question, here.
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Evan Prodromoureplied to Space Catitude 🚀 last edited by
@TerryHancock I also prefer blueberries in my pancakes, but that's not the question under discussion.
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Evan Prodromoureplied to Evan Prodromou last edited by
A lot of the repliers say it doesn't make a difference to them. I think that's unlikely, and that they're suffering from the rational actor fallacy, believing that their own actions are more rational than others'.
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Evan Prodromoureplied to CMDR Yojimbosan ⁂ last edited by
@yojimbo I gave my response here
Evan Prodromou (@[email protected])
Thanks for the replies, all. I'm somewhat face.
CoSocial (cosocial.ca)
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@evan I don't see trust as a one dimensional thing. I'd trust you to be positive about fedi-things and have some experience with the unpleasantness of accidents. That reputation isn't tied to your pictogram, but more to your name.
For your opinion of the best kombucha drinks, I have no idea how to rate that, so it'd be "random Person on mastodon" bucket. Again, I doubt your profile pic is going to have an influence there. -
@evan dismissing dissenting opinions so easily does sound like some senior CEO bullcrap though. That affects trustworthiness.
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I don't understand this post. Are you talking about me saying that people are ignoring cognitive biases, or are you extending your example from the previous post?
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infinite love ⴳreplied to Evan Prodromou last edited by
@evan i distrust brand logos and i distrust corporate faces, although it's hard to say which i distrust more. i suppose it's something like this, from "least trustworthy" to "most trustworthy":
- corporate logo
- professional headshot
- casual headshot / selfie
- casual logo
- furry avatar
- anime avatar
- cat pic
- abstract artall in all, "somewhat face" but with notable caveats for the definition of "face" and "logo".
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@evan that's a reaction to the 'many people say X, but i think that's unlikely, they must all be [fallacy]'.
I'm not suggesting large groups must be right, but it sounds like the "you are not the user" fallacy?
It seems to me, you post these questions to learn more about how other people function. To then write that you dismiss a big group, seems weird.
But then, I hardly post, hardly respond to posts, so your engagement must be orders of magnitude different. That changes things too I guess
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@chrisn OK. Thanks for the note.