Thanks for posting op, it's interesting to think about. > Reddit posts are good because the people who create these posts or make comments are doing it to shar

Thanks for posting op, it's interesting to think about. > Reddit posts are good because the people who create these posts or make comments are doing it to share their knowledge. I would offer a bit of a different perspective here, I think maybe even most do it for what you could call self-soothing. For example, a lot of people share knowledge, but it's _their knowledge_, which can also be defined as _sharing their subjective past_ and that's known to be a very soothing thing for people who may even be troubled by the unknown in their personal lives. Hop online, boom, you're a domain expert in your own past. Find a place that's _about your past_, be it /r/linux or /r/formula1 or whatever, and there you go, it's comfy. You generally get an upvote + reply vibes dopamine bonus just for being there, due to your relevant past. So, Reddit's sooth-sayers (so to speak) are kind of lazy but incentivized-lazy in some ways, which I think can also speak to some issues with the platform surrounding cognitive blind spots and what some here have called the echo chamber effect. That's an opportunity for a new search engine, in some ways, but it also may offer insights to new services that could be even more effective. > And there is no financial incentive associated with it. [posting on Reddit] There is though. I mean I've myself been financially incentivized into doing it, as have probably many, many others. Nothing sneaky, even. You've got people posting their stuff all over the place, and the more community or indie or niche it is, the more welcomed is the post-as-advertisement or comment-as-advertisement. And that's not even going into corporate efforts to operate on the platform, which can be very subtle. > However, once Reddit creates a search engine, and once people get to know that there is an opportunity to game the system and create a financial opportunity, Perhaps--but Google was _really_ good for a very long time. That was worth a lot to millions of people. I like to think that in the future, an ecosystem-mindset toward incentive systems could really help, like planning for different emergent systems that incentivize good results. Anyway, fun to think about, thanks again.