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It looks like you can "tip" communities and users and be tipped yourself for things you post. The incentive to create genuinely worthwhile content is much highe
by Zikes 10y ago
It looks like you can "tip" communities and users and be tipped yourself for things you post. The incentive to create genuinely worthwhile content is much higher, assuming people actually use the tipping feature.
- JBReefer 10y agoCan't you do that on the rest of the Internet with Bitcoin? Why would I want to do that anyway?
- DanBC 10y agoGiffgaff, a UK provider of mobile phone services, has extensive user provided support in their forums. If someone gives a useful answer you give them "kudos", and that translates to tiny amounts of credit on their bill. It's likely that companies might want to offload the forums to someone like Imzy.
- Zikes 10y agoI suppose with Reddit's "flair" options you could put a BTC address next to your username in a lot of subreddits. But BTC is a lot more effort than just clicking a button, unless the site sets itself up specifically to use BTC, at which point why not just use real money? Take a look at all the "gilded" posts on Reddit. I see dozens of them every day. People love spending a few bucks here and there to show their appreciation for good content, but all of that money goes straight to Reddit rather than the person that created or shared that content. I would much prefer the majority of my "gildings" to go to the user, rather than the site.
- jsprogrammer 10y agoReddit has multiple payment bots. See: https://www.reddit.com/r/changetip/ https://www.reddit.com/r/changetip/ I believe there are Twitter bots for the same. Any bot should be generalizable to any text medium.
- bpicolo 10y agoThe vast majority of internet users are not and will continue to not be bitcoin-savvy for a long time.
- dredmorbius 10y agoTipping requires leaving your banking information and SSN on a site which offers at best a "brokered" anonymity. And in fact tipping itself has been one of the mechanisms by which Imzy's anonymity has been breached: https://www.imzy.com/imzy/post/privacy_issues_with_tipping https://www.imzy.com/imzy/post/privacy_issues_with_tipping My own experiences with Imzy have been less than salutory. https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/500ysb/the_imzy_experience_well_that_escalated_quickly/ https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/500ysb/the_imz...