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A problem with "social networks", and perhaps the Internet in general, in my opinion, is that they encourage groupthink. > Each vote costs 10¢ and the payment
by trott 9y ago
A problem with "social networks", and perhaps the Internet in general, in my opinion, is that they encourage groupthink.
> Each vote costs 10¢ and the payment is distributed amongst earlier voters.
This sort of pyramidal scheme actually gives people a monetary incentive to try to vote how others will vote, regardless of their actual opinion. Like other gambling, it may be a good business model, but it serves to exacerbate the groupthink problem.
- alttab 9y agoAnd the sock puppeting, fraud, money laundering, and plagerism? Oh geez. Where is their cut?
- flatline 9y agoExactly what happened on steem.it, people just (re)-posted stuff like they do on reddit and made money from it with no attribution to the original author. I know they tried to crack down on this sort of thing but moderation is really labor intensive and difficult for other reasons too.
- sneak 9y ago1) it's steemit.com 2) no we didn't; steemit is entirely unmoderated.
- flatline 9y agoThank you for the correction; I have never used the platform and misremebered several details from this post: https://steemit.com/steemitabuse/@masteryoda/why-i-removed-all-my-posts https://steemit.com/steemitabuse/@masteryoda/why-i-removed-a...
- yafujifide 9y agoThis is our first voting model. We have other models planned for favorites, liking, etc. May the best model win. We are always focused on high quality content and will make sure that's the case :)
- pg_is_a_butt 9y agohow will you make sure that's the case without answering all of the above questions? you're all idiots.
- dps7ud 9y agoI had similar thoughts about the following: > It costs 10¢ to post a comment and the money goes to the original author. Our users enjoy paying the original creator to post a nice comment next to their work. Which would seem to discourage discourage diversity of discussion since profits go to the OP.
- mc32 9y agoWhat if they tweaked things so if you reply with an agreement to an opposing author, that money is,either split or goes to the opposing opinion's author outright?