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27 sats \ 16 replies \ @DarthCoin OP 21 Oct 2024 \ parent \ on: Darthcoin journey on Stacker News bitcoin
I wonder how SN "lawyers" see the rewards given to stackers if not as "money transmitting" service ?
We are back to square one.
V4V is really powerful when you let it in hands of individuals.
ONLY the true content will be rewarded.
Exactly that. Real V4V not a fake race for rewards.
Shouldn't we then also make people pay to read?
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Unless we trust the content producer, or whoever is asking us to pay (curator, distributor, publisher), we won't be willing to make upfront payments. I think paywalls are less effective in places where there are low barriers to publishing and pseudonymity is encouraged.
For strong identities, including pseudonyms, paywalls can work. It lets the reader know what you'd like to be paid, makes it inconvenient for them to get the content otherwise, and they can't "forget" to zap at the end.
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Yes, I find paywalls annoying and must be highly motivated to overcome them.
But this leaves us with no incentive beyond wanting to reward an poster/commenter and "generally encourage more content of this type." This sounds to me like an externality, a lot like a factory dumping effluent into a river without regard for people downstream.
Rewards are a way of bringing the externality back into the market.
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I'm with you on rewards. It doesn't yet solve the problem for exceptionally high value content, like some of the short stories that have been shared here, but it's better than nothing. It might just be a matter of improving rewards though.
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Rewards system was good until now. That's how you attracted stackers.
But is time to move on and find better ways to keep stackers posting on SN.
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Let's see how SN will deal with rewards after 5th of Nov...
I doubt that will be able to have a proper p2p system that could work.
Otherwise is going back to cowboy credits.
I stand my ground: separate v4v p2p zaps from SN upvotes (CC) and let the free market do its thing.
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That's shitcoinery.
For example: why should I pay you to read my Bitcoin guides, when I am the one that provide you something useful for you ?
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We buy books, right?
Why not make the system pay to read with sats going directly to the author?
(I think the reason we don't do this is it puts too much friction in the system and would make it so fewer people use the site.)
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That is something else.
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Why is pay to post different than pay to read?
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When I want to read a book, I know about that book prior, from a review, from a snippet or let me read 1st chapter.
So if I really want to read that book, even with pay per read, I will pay gladly because I want it.
Pay to post in a public forum is different than a book.
When I want to say something publicly, I should pay to say that something. Why? Because if that forum is not mine, I use their infrastructure, their time to code it and maintain it. It is a payment for a service platform.
Ah... that comes the part where readers of my post want to reward me for what I am saying, that is another part, that have nothing to do with the forum platform founders and must be separate.
Another thing is when I give FREE to read education guides. People will pay only if they consider it valuable and the amount they want or consider that save their time.
See all the spam stupid comments from Bell_curve in this post?
He's trying to reply to everybody trashing me.
In a real V4V system he couldn't do that. Will be too costly for him.
I'm shocked you haven't consulted your natural law lawyer
is he licensed in your sovereign neighborhood?
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