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So what about a community like Hacker News that combines community, karma, money and action. Think of it like crowd sourced lawyers to even up egregious abuser
by andy_ppp 11y ago
So what about a community like Hacker News that combines community, karma, money and action.
Think of it like crowd sourced lawyers to even up egregious abusers of the public commons.
The community can somehow [1] filter actions up to the top and then automatically start a crowd funding campaign to take legal action based upon such things.
Might work against patent trolls and other organisations that we all feel are acting badly but we feel powerless to do anything about. I'd put £100 down now toward a class action lawsuit against the Daily Mail for constantly stealing peoples content.
[1] technical term meaning I haven't thought this through properly