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So they put their own money up and when they complete a task they get their own money back? What's to stop people marking tasks as done (when they're not) to a

• aioprisan 14y ago
  We would start off all accounts with a nominal positive ($1-$5) balance to minimize friction and get people more comfortable with it. We would be paying users, in the long term from their own money that they put into the system. We blogged about some of the cases to prevent misuse, here they are: Case 1: What if users create hundreds of tasks and just check off tasks to cash in without actually being more productive? We could limit rapid fire task creation to a few tasks per minute. Some backend NLP process would assign a spammer rank to new tasks, allowing us to temporarily suspend rewards if we believe the customer is just trying to game the system. Case 2: Even so, users could easily make hundreds of dollars each week if they just create tasks and check them off at regular intervals. How would you prevent that? We could cap weekly rewards to around $10/month and penalties to $20/month.