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Giving users a direct financial incentive to game your system would probably turn your platform into a 'low-effort but popular' content mill in short order. (Im

Giving users a direct financial incentive to game your system would probably turn your platform into a 'low-effort but popular' content mill in short order. (Imagine what would happen if people could withdraw reddit gold to cash.) Drawing a line for 'quality control' becomes the next obvious step, but whenever money gets involved (especially other peoples'), any decision you make trying to decide for users how and for whom your system can be used ends up making it less viable to them, even if it's in the best interests of your platform or its quality. "X with micropayments" isn't a new concept, and it's not a funding model panacea for a reason.

baumandm 10y ago
You can't game the system if you're getting paid by other users. We can argue about tweet quality, but it's no different than any other product or service that some people find valuable and others don't. What you're describing is possible if Twitter agreed to pay top Tweeters to generate popular content, independent of user's volunteering to pay for that content. This would drive low-quality, low-effort content which nobody is interested in, but Twitter pays for anyways.
- Pxtl 10y ago
  To keep scammers out they could start with restricting the feature to verified users. That would discourage beggars and hucksters until they work the kinks of admining and monitoring such a beast out.