Emphasis on pay to post is good. It's easier when thinking about SN to focus on the innovation of receiving sats ("earning"), but a forum where you must pay to post is an equally powerful innovation.
I'm curious for your thoughts about the incentives of SN rewards. Here is how I understand it:
Posters have an incentive to post good posts -- people will zap them if they do.
Commenters have an incentive to make good comments and engage in the conversation -- people might zap their comments.
What is the incentive for zappers?
SN rewards (and the leaderboard) look to me like an attempt to incentivize zapping.
If SN removes rewards, the only reason to zap good content is "good will." It seems to me that the less we have to rely on people doing the "right" thing and the more we give them an incentive to do the "right" thing, the better everything works.
(I would say this is one of the major flaws of most governments: we expect elected officials to do useful/good work without providing any sort of incentive to do so. People are self-intetested. We can rely on this.)
Do you have thoughts on alternative ways to incentivize zapping?
(I suppose an incentive for zappers might be to encourage more good content, do you think this is a good enough incentive?)
Emphasis on pay to post is good. It's easier when thinking about SN to focus on the innovation of receiving sats ("earning"), but a forum where you must pay to post is an equally powerful innovation.
I'm curious for your thoughts about the incentives of SN rewards. Here is how I understand it:
Posters have an incentive to post good posts -- people will zap them if they do.
Commenters have an incentive to make good comments and engage in the conversation -- people might zap their comments.
What is the incentive for zappers?
SN rewards (and the leaderboard) look to me like an attempt to incentivize zapping.
If SN removes rewards, the only reason to zap good content is "good will." It seems to me that the less we have to rely on people doing the "right" thing and the more we give them an incentive to do the "right" thing, the better everything works.
(I would say this is one of the major flaws of most governments: we expect elected officials to do useful/good work without providing any sort of incentive to do so. People are self-intetested. We can rely on this.)
Do you have thoughts on alternative ways to incentivize zapping?
(I suppose an incentive for zappers might be to encourage more good content, do you think this is a good enough incentive?)