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I want a "reddit" like discussion board where: - Users don't have to pay to post links/stories - Users have to pay to comment on links/stories - Users have to
by xtracto 7mo ago
I want a "reddit" like discussion board where:
- Users don't have to pay to post links/stories
- Users have to pay to comment on links/stories
- Users have to pay to "upvote" comments. Downvotes don't exist
- Each link "lives" a certain amount of time before it is locked.
- After lock time, users who posted the link get "paid" a % of the collected $ comments/upvotes. Comments that are upvoted also earn $ proportionally to the upvotes.
Hashcash was conceived to solve automated spam/email. Participating in a discussion must cost something, that's the only way bots and spam will get partially stopped. Or, if they start to optimize to get "the most votes", then so be it, their content will increase in quality.
- fragmede 7mo agoWhat's stopping you from building it yourself?
- 0gs 7mo ago+1 let's make this
- craftkiller 7mo agoIt seems like that would lead to a proliferation of ragebait, deliberately controversial posts, and overly simplistic articles to attract the greatest amount of comments. I frequently see deeply technical high-value posts on HN with very few comments but each thread about politics ends up getting hundreds of comments.
- toomuchtodo 7mo agoYou could build this on ATProto.
- greymalik 7mo agoI’m missing something. What’s the incentive for people to pay to upvote or comment?
- shit_game 7mo agoThis sounds like a platform that has no appeal to the average person, and an incredible appeal to people wishing to launder money or use money to run an influence campaign. Deliberately determining popularity proportionally to the amount of money spent is little different than advertising, but this would be under the false premise of "someone thought this was important/valuable enough to pay money to suggest I see it". If this were to exist today, I know I would be incredibly critical of it.
- PaulHoule 7mo agoMakes me think of how prediction markets have a Republican bias because some rich people just gotta bet on their tribe every time https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/server/api/core/bitstreams/41764745-eceb-421c-93fe-07b32f43a561/content https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/server/api/core/bitstreams/4176474... Every election I see internet-connected gym machines have the leaderboards spammed with right wing messages because some people don’t have to work and just spin all day.
- sunaookami 7mo agoPaying users for their posts is what killed YouTube, Twitter Facebook, Instagram... You will only get shitty ragebait comments. Not to mention that you have to link some bank account with your full name, etc.