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Voting would also require an account. Random internet user would purchase an account if service provided value for them. For example, maybe they can create for

Voting would also require an account. Random internet user would purchase an account if service provided value for them. For example, maybe they can create forums via this system for their gaming guild etc. Yes, advertisers can purchase an account but there might be a popular moderator who bans these viral advertisements, based on popularity of ad-blocker I imagine such an moderator would get bunch of subscribers. Perhaps moderators can make some money through their subscribers as well, might be an interesting scheme. Also spot price is pretty strong deterrent for advertisers especially if they keep getting banned through popular moderators.

remram 6y ago
Do you think random internet users would purchase accounts, when they get no value from it? They can still consume all the content for free, paying only gives them the right to put free labor into curation. I can see some users pay the fee so they can downvote opponents, but otherwise why would they? And of course they can still pay a higher fee to downvote multiple times, if they are angry enough, which is exactly what you wanted to prevent in the first place...