If Lesswrong had certain prestige pins, like Pokemon badges, I would write on LW more often. The idea of a trinket that expresses social status to a niche group of people in-the-know, is so sticky to my brain.
If LW did this, I think they could sell the badges for $30-50 each, and you only ‘unlock’ those purchases in the store when you—for example—have 10 posts hit the front page, or have made 100 useful wiki edits, or got to 1000 Karma.
Oh, and then they could do special badges for Petrov Day participants! And April fools! And my god, a Shoggoth Enamel pin would be one of my most prized possessions (Only available to purchase during Fooming Shoggoth concerts).
I do like where your head’s at, though. As a new LessWrong user who loves nothing more than in-group signalling, I’m a little sad at the total lack of LW/Lightcone merch available.
I have a Redbubble store, where I sell some Rationalist merch. All the Rationalist stuff (expect for a few items I was too lazy to change the setting on) are sold at cost, and I make no money from them. However, they’re honestly not very good, and I mainly put the rationalist stuff up there, because I wanted to a “notice confusion” phone case.
I think it’s ~silly that Lightcone doesn’t have a merch store, because I’d buy the shit out of Lesswrong merch. Like, I also imagine Shoggoth Blind boxes, like PopMart. Which I would easily spend $200 on to buy all an entire carton of (if it’s guaranteed that the carton contains all the variants)
I think “Lightcone Brand Paperclips” is also another cute, untapped market.
If Lesswrong had certain prestige pins, like Pokemon badges, I would write on LW more often. The idea of a trinket that expresses social status to a niche group of people in-the-know, is so sticky to my brain.
If LW did this, I think they could sell the badges for $30-50 each, and you only ‘unlock’ those purchases in the store when you—for example—have 10 posts hit the front page, or have made 100 useful wiki edits, or got to 1000 Karma.
Oh, and then they could do special badges for Petrov Day participants! And April fools! And my god, a Shoggoth Enamel pin would be one of my most prized possessions (Only available to purchase during Fooming Shoggoth concerts).
I’m going to go research enamel pin creation now.
P.S. Can we see a photo of your pin?!
Be in awe of my Prestige.
I do like where your head’s at, though. As a new LessWrong user who loves nothing more than in-group signalling, I’m a little sad at the total lack of LW/Lightcone merch available.
I bow at your majesty. It is a lovely pin, sir.
I have a Redbubble store, where I sell some Rationalist merch. All the Rationalist stuff (expect for a few items I was too lazy to change the setting on) are sold at cost, and I make no money from them. However, they’re honestly not very good, and I mainly put the rationalist stuff up there, because I wanted to a “notice confusion” phone case.
I think it’s ~silly that Lightcone doesn’t have a merch store, because I’d buy the shit out of Lesswrong merch. Like, I also imagine Shoggoth Blind boxes, like PopMart. Which I would easily spend $200 on to buy all an entire carton of (if it’s guaranteed that the carton contains all the variants)
I think “Lightcone Brand Paperclips” is also another cute, untapped market.
Shoggoth Pin Mockup: And according to Custom Ink it’s only $909 USD to get 150 of these shipped to me in Australia! If I was rich, I would do this.