Winters are cold. Youd like to see hobos clad in your rival schools jackets.

This is the second (that I've seen) submission of this horrifying idea. Classifying the commodification of homeless people is beyond politically incorrect- it's inhumane and representative of a total lack of perspective typical of so many of those who are privileged enough to attend institutions like MIT. For those behind it: adding a disclaimer to your site that suggests your actions are in good faith only further confirms, to me, your total lack of awareness about what it means to be disenfranchised in this society. Instead of resubmitting this link after your first entry got so much flak, why don't you try and exhibit even a minor degree of awareness and take the site down? You're shaming yourselves and your institution.

I had this idea before (at conferences...pay the homeless spangers near Moscone to wear your competitors' items), but figured it would be cruel.

Although I wouldn't have a problem with it if a homeless person himself got entrepreneurial and offered people money to wear shirts advertising their competitors.

Of all the ideas in the world to implement how could you possibly come up with this? And to the submitter, I guess this is a Meteor app (and hopefully that's where the connection starts and ends), but this suggests really low empathic intelligence on your part too. Just shameful!

No.

My lack of a sense of humor notwithstanding, this is insulting.

It probably sounded good when they came up with the idea whilst drunk.