It looks like you can "tip" communities and users and be tipped yourself for things you post. The incentive to create genuinely worthwhile content is much higher, assuming people actually use the tipping feature.
I suppose with Reddit's "flair" options you could put a BTC address next to your username in a lot of subreddits. But BTC is a lot more effort than just clicking a button, unless the site sets itself up specifically to use BTC, at which point why not just use real money?
Take a look at all the "gilded" posts on Reddit. I see dozens of them every day. People love spending a few bucks here and there to show their appreciation for good content, but all of that money goes straight to Reddit rather than the person that created or shared that content. I would much prefer the majority of my "gildings" to go to the user, rather than the site.
Well, there's a lot to it and the more you use it the more you understand it. I think we need to get a lot better at getting the real value prop to new users in a better way, so thanks for highlighting this.
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[ 1.9 ms ] story [ 37.6 ms ] threadCensorship certainly makes HN better than Reddit, so no judgement there. I just don't understand the Imzy value proposition as a user.
Why would I want to do that anyway?
If someone gives a useful answer you give them "kudos", and that translates to tiny amounts of credit on their bill.
It's likely that companies might want to offload the forums to someone like Imzy.
Take a look at all the "gilded" posts on Reddit. I see dozens of them every day. People love spending a few bucks here and there to show their appreciation for good content, but all of that money goes straight to Reddit rather than the person that created or shared that content. I would much prefer the majority of my "gildings" to go to the user, rather than the site.
I believe there are Twitter bots for the same. Any bot should be generalizable to any text medium.
And in fact tipping itself has been one of the mechanisms by which Imzy's anonymity has been breached:
https://www.imzy.com/imzy/post/privacy_issues_with_tipping
My own experiences with Imzy have been less than salutory. https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/500ysb/the_imz...
For now though, there's a lot written here about things that make us different - https://www.imzy.com/imzy/post/weve_raised_our_series_fundin...