In that case, they're literally paying for the attention. And given it goes to the community pool, there's some interesting economics at play here. Would people tolerate trolls if they're getting paid for it? I'm actually curious how much trolls are willing to pay and at what limits they stop.
I think we would probably converge on something like 20 trolls pay for 80 users.
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So we're back to advertisers?
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Not exactly, but also note the difference that those "advertisers" would pay the users directly...
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