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I understand the need for rewarding valuable community contributors. Even if Reddit, Hackernews and other Forums have traditionally worked in a voluntary fashio
by montenegrohugo 6y ago
I understand the need for rewarding valuable community contributors. Even if Reddit, Hackernews and other Forums have traditionally worked in a voluntary fashion. And this is certainly some cool tech and a showcase of how cryptocurrencies can be useful.
That said, this measure will just lead to bots reposting (or in the near future generating GPT-2 like garbage) content in order to farm community points/ethereum.
As soon as you add in a financial incentive the whole situation gets ugly.
- centimeter 6y agoThere's already a financial incentive - controlling the narrative is valuable. There are already bots posting/generating content on Reddit and other social media sites.
- calmworm 6y agoThis coupled with the recent thread will be interesting ... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23173018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23173018 There are multiple sub-reddits that are essentially just karma farms already. I'm curious how this will play out.
- helpimlost 6y agoDoes that mean they shouldn’t even try?