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I 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
by vasilipupkin 8y ago
I 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 ?