Well we have some conversation going on in the comments here . Lets discuss!
Are you using tickers to navigate the site? Did you know you could?
Are you remembering the tickers of your friends in here? If so why?
Are there tickers that just don’t stick for you!
Do you buy people whose tickers offend you or you think are inappropriate?
or did you just not put any thought in it lol
Also as an aside.. JOSH put up a tip the other day, I think is super helpful since we are adding each other all over twitter. I have a huge influx of spam people adding me since I joined and actually talk on twitter now. Putting your ticker into your description on twitter is an easy way for us to know to who you are or if we should follow back. Plus if you forget to use it in and #empireave tweet we can still go look you up easily.
Well do the 5 of you reading this wanna discuss? lol
Empire Avenue Thoughts 
DARING
June 9, 2010
Great questions, Fray! Let’s get started, shall we?
Navigation – From my earlier post, I’ve been clicking rather than typing, but as I’ve aquired shares in more people, I found that typing is definitely becoming more efficient (right now) for quickly getting to a specific person you need to check up on. As for knowing you could, not at first, until I saw someone’s link in an advertisement — at first I thought it was a EA company link, and that the person was promoting some new official thing in the Cork update, so it enticed me to click.
Definitely remembering the tickersym of folks I want to follow, but am remembering their actual names more, which, for someone who always has trouble matching a face to a name, is kinda cool. As the game is about personal influence, I’m impressed that EA has done something that makes me learn names.
Now, since I seem to be remembering actual names more, I do find myself forgetting tickersyms (sometimes). Those I do remember, I do for two reasons. They are either the same as (some part of) their name, or they stand out because of wit/cleverness.
Tickers that don’t stick for me: random collections of initials (even if I know you irl). Tickers without vowels.
Offensive tickers. Now that’s a pickle. As I explore EA more, I am intrigued by the various different levels one can “play.” Thinking short term, offensive tickers could translate into big profits as stock gets noticed and people buy (Case in point BOOBS. Will POOPS follow the same trend?). Focusing on the long term and the idea of influence and quality of reputation as commodities, you have to think about whether you personally would want an “inappropriate” ticker for yourself, and whether you want to be associated with someone else with one. I think it comes back to your reason for playing, and who your target audience is. That being said, we’re still in beta, amassing a valueable portfolio allows you to do a lot of things, and you can always unfollow.
Whozanext?
Oh and by the way, I changed my mind overnight. I’m getting tired of typing the extra three letters. Scratch that, tired of typing gulrock, hitting backspace twice, and then hitting k. 😉
frayclose
June 9, 2010
LOL I am leaning towards snort today lol
and in some case i am actually remembering the ticker better than the name. like qwerty.. changing his ticker worked really well. qwerty sticks and its fun to type lol
DARING
June 9, 2010
Qwerty is efficient to type too! Like sliding your finger across piano keys.