Interestingly a similar system was reported on reddit (though I can’t find the link now), where the standard tip jar was replaced with two containers labelled after different cartoons (think it was animaniacs and dexters labratory?) and the jar that got the highest amount of donations the previous day was displayed (“You picked band X over ban Y”). This profits both from signalling desires as in the Beiber case and competiveness.
The success of this is even harder to explain in terms of rewards, as they’re not notionally contributing to their own utility by removing unpleasant music, merely getting pleasure from expressing their opinion.
Interestingly a similar system was reported on reddit (though I can’t find the link now), where the standard tip jar was replaced with two containers labelled after different cartoons (think it was animaniacs and dexters labratory?) and the jar that got the highest amount of donations the previous day was displayed (“You picked band X over ban Y”). This profits both from signalling desires as in the Beiber case and competiveness.
Edit: Found it!
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The success of this is even harder to explain in terms of rewards, as they’re not notionally contributing to their own utility by removing unpleasant music, merely getting pleasure from expressing their opinion.