Title is mostly the post. I had the realization the other day that if you break down the “pay to post” idea to its basic components it’s literally just describing paid advertising we see across media. If you boil down Reddit or Google to its “pay to post” components, it’s the promoted posts or AdWords. It’s distinct in the scale at which people pay (as opposed to free + advertising), but the concept of paying to make people see your content is ancient.
@DarthCoin keeps reposting “this is a pay to post platform” as if it’s a new epoch of content, saying the reward mechanism is meaningless and bullying people on here for even talking about the reward system despite that being a key differentiating mechanic (ie Reddit Karma does nothing except create a small threshold to prevent spam). Why isn’t this valid? If anything, this is more novel because it provides micro incentives for good content like substack or patreon at a much lower scale without the formality / registration processes.
I sort of put this thought aside, but then @DarthCoin me a retard for asking about a stock so I bothered to type this out. To be fair, credit to him for a lot of his content like coining assmilking and calling it, promoting BTC etc… but holy hell dude
@k00b for the avoidance of doubt, great site
Pay to post is definitely not new, but the point is that it solves many of the problems free posting platforms have.
Where I disagree with Darth is that the rewards system is necessary to entice people to pay to post.
Does it solve them? What do you consider the core problems
Spam and other low effort content. When you know someone had to pay to post, you assume they cared a little bit about what they posted and don't treat it as cheap talk.
That's right, but you don't even have to do that elsewhere.
I agree with that
Why do you think peoples do this?
You are new here. Soon you will understand my words.
Sounds good, Darth
It’s a valid system because it discourages low-quality content. It doesn’t stop it from existing, and that’s why giving downzaps is just as valid as giving zaps.
I don't think the problems that are solved are nearly as trivial as you make them seem. Bot farms on twitter? Can't afford to do that here. Shitty no-context posts designed to farm likes? That won't earn you sats here and thus is less incentivized. People will send a couple sats around to silly wise cracks, sure, but if you hang around long enough, you'll quickly notice the trend that real value only gets sent to real valuable posts. Check all the top stackers here. . .they are on the top for a reason.
front ending the payment from a user to post something is, basically, unthinkable for most poeple