High-status people get advantages for free because it’s beneficial for agents to give them advantages. For a high status person it’s easy to stay away and publish their content on their own blog and have an audience on their own blog. This makes it more important to incentive them to contribute.
Companies have bonus system to reward the people who already have the most success in the company because it’s very important to keep high performers happy.
I think this only works if your standards for posts are in sync with those of the outside world. Otherwise, you’re operating under incompatible status models and cannot sustain your community standards against outside pressure; you will always be outcompeted by the outside world (who can pretty much always offer more status than you can simply by volume) unless you can maintain the worth of your respect, and you cannot do that by copying outside appraisal.
High-status people get advantages for free because it’s beneficial for agents to give them advantages. For a high status person it’s easy to stay away and publish their content on their own blog and have an audience on their own blog. This makes it more important to incentive them to contribute.
Companies have bonus system to reward the people who already have the most success in the company because it’s very important to keep high performers happy.
I think this only works if your standards for posts are in sync with those of the outside world. Otherwise, you’re operating under incompatible status models and cannot sustain your community standards against outside pressure; you will always be outcompeted by the outside world (who can pretty much always offer more status than you can simply by volume) unless you can maintain the worth of your respect, and you cannot do that by copying outside appraisal.