I think Reddit tried something like that; you could award people “Reddit gold”, not sure how it worked.
It didn’t do anything systemically, just made the comment look different.
You need to have a way to evaluate the outcome
What I plan on doing is evaluating comments partly based on expected eventual findings of deeper discussion of those comments. You can’t resolve a prediction market about whether free will is real, you can make a prediction market about what kind of consensus or common ground might be reached if you had Keith Frankish and Michael Edward Johnson undertake 8 hours of podcasting, because that’s a test that can/may be run.
Or you can make it about resolutions of investigations undertaken by clusters of the scholarly endorsement network.
The details matter, because they determine how people will try to game this.
The best way to game that is to submit your own articles to the system then allocate all of your gratitude to them, so that you get back the entirety of your subscription fee. But it’d be a small amount of money (well, ideally it wouldn’t be, access to good literature is tremendously undervalued, but at first it would be) and you’d have to be especially malignant to do it after spending a substantial amount of time reading and being transformed by other peoples’ work.
But I guess the manifestation of this that’s hardest to police is; will a user endorse a work even if they know the money will go entirely to a producer who they dislike especially given that the producer has since fired all of the creatives who made the work.
It didn’t do anything systemically, just made the comment look different.
What I plan on doing is evaluating comments partly based on expected eventual findings of deeper discussion of those comments. You can’t resolve a prediction market about whether free will is real, you can make a prediction market about what kind of consensus or common ground might be reached if you had Keith Frankish and Michael Edward Johnson undertake 8 hours of podcasting, because that’s a test that can/may be run.
Or you can make it about resolutions of investigations undertaken by clusters of the scholarly endorsement network.
The best way to game that is to submit your own articles to the system then allocate all of your gratitude to them, so that you get back the entirety of your subscription fee. But it’d be a small amount of money (well, ideally it wouldn’t be, access to good literature is tremendously undervalued, but at first it would be) and you’d have to be especially malignant to do it after spending a substantial amount of time reading and being transformed by other peoples’ work.
But I guess the manifestation of this that’s hardest to police is; will a user endorse a work even if they know the money will go entirely to a producer who they dislike especially given that the producer has since fired all of the creatives who made the work.