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Ask HN: Monetizing/attaching a monetary reward to good HN comments?
I see many insightful and high-reputation commenter s on HN, but they only post occasionally. What if there was a "tip" link that allowed the transfer of small amounts of money to incentivize commenting?
For people of normal economic class, they can withdraw the money.
For people rich enough to not care about money, the tips could be auto-contributed to a charity of their choice. (Feed XX children.)
- aww_dang 6y agoYou could implement account verification by having users add a unique string to their profile page.
- brudgers 6y agoWhy not donate the money to a charity of your choice? There are all kinds of tax implications with a tips scheme. And for US citizens, all kinds of potential legal complications if any funds come from proscribed sources.