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content quality aside, at least this makes users customers. why shouldn't folks creating content on sites like this be part of the profit sharing?
by diN0bot 8y ago
content quality aside, at least this makes users customers. why shouldn't folks creating content on sites like this be part of the profit sharing?
- manigandham 8y agoThe only valuable content are the answers, some that have taken hours to write and kept up to date by passionate folks who are willing to share their expertise and knowledge. They don't pay for answers though, and this is making writers turn into unpaid workers generating money for spammers who just post questions all day. Many writers I know have stopped because there is no upside.
- vasilipupkin 8y agoI wish someone would make a for profit site that is a mashup of hacker news, quora and twitter and paid people for posting content, specifically for upvotes. I would invest in this personally
- manigandham 8y agoI think paying for content is the problem because it skews everything, unless there is very tight control over submissions.
- vasilipupkin 8y agoWhy ? What’s the difference between paying for upvotes in dopamine hits or money ?
- manigandham 8y agoBecause people will do anything for even trivial amounts of money while upvotes are controlled by users which is self-correcting when the community and controls are well managed.
- vasilipupkin 8y agoI’m proposing leaving the upvotes in the hands of users but paying users for high karma
- manigandham 8y agoSure, but the overall point is that as soon as you introduce money people will spend inordinate amounts of time to game the system. Paying for high scores will mean people doing anything they can to get upvotes unethically that will eventually hurt the community, similar to what's happening on Quora right now.
- vasilipupkin 8y agoagree that there are complications but I think there are also advantages. All these sites depend on quality content and creating an explicit incentive to provide it is not so bad, is it ?
- kirillzubovsky 8y agoBecause they are not paying for answers, or good thoughtful in-depth answers at that, they are paying for Questions. From my understanding, the better your question does, the more money it generates. This puts incentives on questions that are (A) most likely to be asked and (B) answers that will drive traffic to the questions. Quora used to be more like Wikipedia, and now it's more like Yahoo answers.