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So it's not free to camp, we'll end up with centralised mega hosters (seedboxes in the tracker analogy) and in practice travelers will be too small time to actu

by muti 3y ago

So it's not free to camp, we'll end up with centralised mega hosters (seedboxes in the tracker analogy) and in practice travelers will be too small time to actually be able earn any credits

Nowado 3y ago
Isn't it beautiful, how new wave of couchsurfing scales into airbnb without having to become a new entity along the way?
FollowingTheDao 3y ago
Agreed, I don’t like this at all. And everyone’s always giving something only just to get something. And it Hass to be monetize and quantized and socialized. Gross.
312c 3y ago
Its also ripe for abuse; create dummy accounts that use their free stays to give a host credit, then the host sells those credits for real money. On a certain movie tracker some invite selling scum would join via the signup process that used to exist on reddit, cheat a bunch of upload on popular torrents, convert that upload into bonus points, launder the points to their main account through a forum contest where they also gave away BP to innocent users, and buy invites to sell for real $ with the laundered BP. Similarly the dummy camping accounts could make sure to mix in some legit hosts as their free stays by picking hosts that may not be around/able to verify the dummy account stayed at their location (because it didn't).
- nikanj 3y ago
  I enjoy the irony of complaining about people breaking the rules on a pirate movie tracker.
  - chaosite 3y ago
    pirate movie trackers are notoriously strict about people breaking their rules.
    - MichaelZuo 3y ago
      The paradox of piracy?
  - q87b 3y ago
    It's different kinds of rules, you cannot easily compare them. Similarly to how the paradox of tolerance falls apart if you consider tolerance a social contract: https://cdn.rheinneckar.social/media_attachments/files/110/661/477/252/433/162/original/9ff3fd331b638213.png https://cdn.rheinneckar.social/media_attachments/files/110/6...

by muti 3y ago

So it's not free to camp, we'll end up with centralised mega hosters (seedboxes in the tracker analogy) and in practice travelers will be too small time to actually be able earn any credits

Nowado 3y ago

Isn't it beautiful, how new wave of couchsurfing scales into airbnb without having to become a new entity along the way?

FollowingTheDao 3y ago

Agreed, I don’t like this at all. And everyone’s always giving something only just to get something. And it Hass to be monetize and quantized and socialized. Gross.

312c 3y ago

Its also ripe for abuse; create dummy accounts that use their free stays to give a host credit, then the host sells those credits for real money. On a certain movie tracker some invite selling scum would join via the signup process that used to exist on reddit, cheat a bunch of upload on popular torrents, convert that upload into bonus points, launder the points to their main account through a forum contest where they also gave away BP to innocent users, and buy invites to sell for real $ with the laundered BP. Similarly the dummy camping accounts could make sure to mix in some legit hosts as their free stays by picking hosts that may not be around/able to verify the dummy account stayed at their location (because it didn't).

nikanj 3y ago
I enjoy the irony of complaining about people breaking the rules on a pirate movie tracker.
- chaosite 3y ago
  pirate movie trackers are notoriously strict about people breaking their rules.
  - MichaelZuo 3y ago
    The paradox of piracy?
- q87b 3y ago
  It's different kinds of rules, you cannot easily compare them. Similarly to how the paradox of tolerance falls apart if you consider tolerance a social contract: https://cdn.rheinneckar.social/media_attachments/files/110/661/477/252/433/162/original/9ff3fd331b638213.png https://cdn.rheinneckar.social/media_attachments/files/110/6...