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That might be tricky because you'd have to determine how much "one tip" (/click,submit) is. Even if a small amount was decided upon, I wonder if there would be
by robinson7d 11y ago
That might be tricky because you'd have to determine how much "one tip" (/click,submit) is. Even if a small amount was decided upon, I wonder if there would be too much added stress along the lines of "is reading this worth the X of a tip?" Which, also, is hard to know until you've actually consumed the whole item, at which point a lot of people have probably linked somewhere else, flowing their way across the web.
I think that this might be helped if it acted like playlists, or bookmarks, where clicking the button would add the site to a list. Later you can opt to donate to items on the list (or provide a single donation split evenly among everything on the list).
Of course, I doubt many would actually use such a feature either.
- StavrosK 11y agoThis pretty much describes flattr.
- robinson7d 11y agoYeah, totally. I had not previously read about flattr, but it appears to be exactly what I proposed! That's excellent, and I think that I'll read more about it, and likely sign up. I certainly hope that it doesn't also live up to the bleak outlook that I had.
- StavrosK 11y agoGiven that it was founded five years ago, I'd imagine it's almost dead now.
- kijin 11y agoReddit Gold seems to be working fairly well. It doesn't even have to be used by many people. Most people rarely click on ads, and yet a lot of websites are doing just fine with ad revenue. You just have to ensure that the small percentage of people who do click generate enough money to compensate for hundreds of others who don't.
- robinson7d 11y agoReddit Gold is definitely a wonderful solution. However, I was replying to a comment about a "donate" button on the browser, and trying to keep within the problem that it is trying to solve, which is (at least as far as I can tell) paying for the vast number of far smaller sites that make up the internet.