prepopulate profiles with actual tips

[chadwhitacre]

Right now we make suggestions for who to tip. On the phone with @MikeFair we had the idea of prepopulating new profiles with actual tips. We should draw these from the new user's social network and then prompt for a credit card.

[chadwhitacre]

+1 from @wesgarrison:

Signed up => took me to my profile instead of "fund your account now" page

https://twitter.com/wesgarrison/status/301721004345016320

[wesgarrison]

Aye.

[chadwhitacre]

Wow! Early returns show that this is, I think, a failure. The first five people to get this experience have immediately set all tips to zero!

[DamosDaze]

What does this mean exactly?

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On May 29, 2013 6:44 PM, "Chad Whitacre" [email protected] wrote:

Wow! Early returns show that this is, I think, a failure. The first five
people to get this experience have immediately set all tips to zero!

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[dmitshur]

Maybe suggestions would work better? E.g., Twitter has suggestions for "Who to follow" but doesn't make you follow anyone on sign-up (as far as I know; I haven't checked recently).

Personally, I wouldn't want anything to be pre-populated for me at start, especially when money's involved. But one's personality plays a large role here, and I'm not very representative of general public.

Edit: I see now that suggestions is where you were coming from.

[chadwhitacre]

@shurcooL This sets up actual tips, but of course no money moves until you add a credit card or receive gifts from others.

[DamosDaze]

You mean with this feature the platform chooses people at random for new
members to give to and automatically sets up gifts?

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On May 30, 2013 9:55 AM, "Chad Whitacre" [email protected] wrote:

@shurcooL https://github.com/shurcooL This sets up actual tips, but of
course no money moves until you add a credit card or receive gifts from
others.

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[chadwhitacre]

@DamosDaze Yup. Full algorithm is described here:

https://github.com/gittip/www.gittip.com/blob/4ed7902cb76d17353541381d790a1ba8b7997a10/gittip/participant.py#L154

[DamosDaze]

Yikes. I can see why everyone set theirs to zero. A discovery engine or
some way of suggesting tippees by interest would be totally appropriate and
helpful but prepopulation is probs not the way to go.

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On May 30, 2013 10:07 AM, "Chad Whitacre" [email protected] wrote:

@DamosDaze https://github.com/DamosDaze Yup. Full algorithm is
described here:

https://github.com/gittip/www.gittip.com/blob/4ed7902cb76d17353541381d790a1ba8b7997a10/gittip/participant.py#L154

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[joealcorn]

FYI, this causes issues when the Gittip/open org user doesn't exist, which will be 99% of people in dev envs

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/joe/git/www.gittip.com/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/aspen/website.py", line 66, in handle_safely
    response = self.handle(request)
  File "/home/joe/git/www.gittip.com/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/aspen/website.py", line 99, in handle
    response = request.resource.respond(request)
  File "/home/joe/git/www.gittip.com/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/aspen/resources/dynamic_resource.py", line 47, in respond
    exec self.pages[1] in context
  File "/home/joe/git/www.gittip.com/www/on/twitter/associate", line 119, in 
    user.set_up_initial_tips(then)
  File "/home/joe/git/www.gittip.com/gittip/models/participant.py", line 409, in set_up_initial_tips
    return OldParticipant(self.username).set_up_initial_tips(then)
  File "/home/joe/git/www.gittip.com/gittip/participant.py", line 90, in wrapped
    return func(self, *a, **kw)
  File "/home/joe/git/www.gittip.com/gittip/participant.py", line 236, in set_up_initial_tips
    amount, first_time_tipper = self.set_tip_to(tippee, amount)
  File "/home/joe/git/www.gittip.com/gittip/participant.py", line 90, in wrapped
    return func(self, *a, **kw)
  File "/home/joe/git/www.gittip.com/gittip/participant.py", line 356, in set_tip_to
    gittip.db.fetchone(NEW_TIP, args)['first_time_tipper']
  File "/home/joe/git/www.gittip.com/gittip/postgres.py", line 102, in fetchone
    with self.get_cursor(*a, **kw) as cursor:
  File "/home/joe/git/www.gittip.com/gittip/postgres.py", line 229, in __enter__
    cursor.execute(*self.a, **self.kw)
  File "/home/joe/git/www.gittip.com/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/psycopg2/extras.py", line 222, in execute
    return _cursor.execute(self, query, vars)
IntegrityError: insert or update on table "tips" violates foreign key constraint "tips_tippee_fkey"
DETAIL:  Key (tippee)=(Gittip) is not present in table "participants".

[chadwhitacre]

@buttscicles I backed this out. Can you confirm that dev install isn't horked anymore on account of this?

[joealcorn]

Yep, it works.