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Is virtual coin the answer to email overload?
The sender of an email attaches units of the virtual currency, called a Serio, to messages. The higher the importance, the more Serios you'd attach. The recipient keeps the Serios which were attached to the message, or chooses a value of Serios to return, depending on the perception of the messages importance. The idea being, since the Serio is a commodity, employees and superiors will be more conscious of the amount and frequency of email they send.
Sound complicated? Kinda. A more simple system might involve removing the fingers of co-workers who send too many useless communications. That'll teach 'em.
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Subscribe to commentsThomasFeb 28th 2007 12:54PM
Coins from Brazil!!! (in the picture)
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A Hello from here!!
Thomas
Vitória - ES - Brasil
Andrew Hillman, Andrew HillmanFeb 28th 2007 10:53PM
This has been tried before!
dpMar 1st 2007 5:15AM
So, like, when the boss sends round a really dopey e-mail the he eckons is worth 100 points, I can send it right back with a value of say, 3?
Let's talk office politics for a moment. Couldn't we have a currency converter instead? One that would automatically factor the sender's status in the workplace hierarchy? So that whenever the boss sends a message it looks to him like it's worth 100 points, but is automagically converted to the value of some harder currency for the rest of us? The boss would see the value in rubles. The rest of us would see it in pennies.
As for email, when *are* we gonna get that 'virtual penny' per post system that eliminates spam?