The introduction of karma/upvotes had a similar impact on forums, and eventually led to forums improving in quality. You could see karma/upvotes as a sort of p

The introduction of karma/upvotes had a similar impact on forums, and eventually led to forums improving in quality. You could see karma/upvotes as a sort of proto-money, with a limited range of monetary qualities. This just takes the same effect, and magnifies it, by fully monetizing those points, so I anticipate it will lead to better content and curation, just as karma/upvotes did when introduced.