I think the stacker news model is working and a stackoverflow type of site would work perfectly with the same model. And then the viablilty of micropayments as a business model is a question of scale.
In this model, any kind of engagement beyond just reading costs some sats.
On the other hand, overly paywalled sites seem to languish for lack of engagement. Imho, even the people who don't boost/tip are providing the value of of their eyeballs, which incentives those that do engage.

DeezSats

Could this be mitigated by charging a fee % of bounty + distributing to productive users like SN does?

spookydub

Let people vote for which is the best response!

tomlaies

bitcoin

Satsoverflow - earn bitcoin for answering questions

03fc104889

I thought about doing it like that, but I realized that it's difficult to prevent someone from cheating:

1) User creates a question with a 1 BTC bounty.
2) User gets hundreds of high quality answers from people who want to win the bounty.
3) User creates a sock-puppet account and gives himself the bounty, after reading all the answers.