Scottley's Second Law of Evite Responses
Further research in the field of Evite Responses has revealed Scottley's Second Law of Evite Responses. The Second Law serves to counteract the First Law by moderating the incentive to avoid geekyness by responding arbitrarily late to an Evite:
Figure 2 also illustrates an important theorem that follows from the Laws of Evite Responses: Savvy Evite responders will tend to dispatch their responses near the equilibrium point of the two curves.
Hopefully this research will help educate the thousands every day who respond to Evites.
The rudeness of an individual is inversely proportional to the difference in time between the Evite event date and the date of said individual's response.The Second Law is illustrated by the dotted line in Figure 2 (for reference, the solid line illustrates the First Law).
Figure 2 also illustrates an important theorem that follows from the Laws of Evite Responses: Savvy Evite responders will tend to dispatch their responses near the equilibrium point of the two curves.
Hopefully this research will help educate the thousands every day who respond to Evites.
Research supported by a grant from the RedEnvelope corporation.
posted by Scottley at 9:59 PM
5 Comments:
I was sort of wondering if the second rule would pop up in some form.
The geeks that got the evite straight away, but chose not to reply immediately out of fear of being seen to be too geeky.
Now if only evite didn't let eviters see which evitees had viewed the evite and when :)
Interesting point, I suppose it would be more accurate to refer to "Apparent Geekyness". Nah. Let's just be brutal.
"Now if only evite didn't let eviters see which evitees had viewed the evite and when :)"
Yeah, but it's a great tool for the eviter to see how the invitation is taking hold.
This is why we are friends :)
AND...I agree with Karl -- the feature that shows that you have viewed the evite should be factored in to your equation. I'd like another graph, please.
There will be no future graphs, I'm sad to say. Red Envelope, for some reason, has pulled our funding.
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