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Re: Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

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Post by Yetanfou »

baby wrote: post #53
jstanley wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What makes this a social experiment rather than a simple cash grab? Are you donating all the money to a charity?

Are you shaming HN users for trying to monetize something?

That question is comparable to the type of question which is often used in politics to silence opponents. In that sense it should be against HN rules, as to whether it is I don't know.

As far as I'm concerned he just asked a question which can be answered without the need for 'defenders' to show up and challenge the questioner - and with that stifle the discourse here.

Re: Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

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Post by jpatokal »

aur09 wrote: post #12
marc wrote: post #3

Hi all. About 2.5 years ago I created Highscore Money. I was looking at pay-to-play games and wondered what would happen if you'd take it to the extreme. The result was just a leaderboard you'd pay your way into. Whatever you pay, that's your score. Today, I'm launching a new social experiment. A chatroom where you pay for every message you send. Normally chatrooms can get messy quick, because there's no cost to send…

Every message so far is some form of test. And what else would you expect? Nobody will care to continue chatting if there is no purpose uniting the room, especially when the more you participate the worse off you are. What are you hoping to achieve here? Or is this just a useless gimmick to get you a couple bucks?

Now there's spam as well. Progress!

Re: Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

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Post by benj111 »

jstanley wrote: post #5
marc wrote: post #3

Hi all. About 2.5 years ago I created Highscore Money. I was looking at pay-to-play games and wondered what would happen if you'd take it to the extreme. The result was just a leaderboard you'd pay your way into. Whatever you pay, that's your score. Today, I'm launching a new social experiment. A chatroom where you pay for every message you send. Normally chatrooms can get messy quick, because there's no cost to send…

What makes this a social experiment rather than a simple cash grab? Are you donating all the money to a charity?

If you donate the money, that changes the dynamic of the experiment.

How would you differentiate between cash grab and social experiment?

Re: Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

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Post by cglace »

stfwn wrote: post #119
kgwgk wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He could give the money to me and the “social experiment” part would be unaffected, I think. He could burn the money. Keeping it is not really out of necessity.

Give the money to the person who spent the most until someone overtakes them and gets the money next.

So basically a dollar auction except the richest person always wins?

Re: Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

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Post by benj111 »

pluma wrote: post #91
jstanley wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What makes this a social experiment rather than a simple cash grab? Are you donating all the money to a charity?

When famed game designer Peter Molyneux came back out of hiding to launch his mobile games with a company called 22cans he also used the "social experiment" label to justify a pay-to-win clicker game and a "crowdfunded" god game with in-app purchases (that were later removed). The answer is: "social experiment" apps and games are just cash grabs with a veneer of clever marketing to them. The Million Dollar Homepage w…

"In cases like this it's code for "grifting""

Are you accusing the pay per letter scheme of being grifting?

How? They aren't misleading anybody.

Re: Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

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Post by bitt »

This sounds really fun! It is one of those ideas that when you first hear it doesn't make a lot of sense. I'm not sure how it will handle transaction costs though. It might be better to allow a minimum of $1 to be added in credits and use that to charge for letters.

Re: Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

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Post by somebadguy »

marc wrote: post #3

Hi all. About 2.5 years ago I created Highscore Money. I was looking at pay-to-play games and wondered what would happen if you'd take it to the extreme. The result was just a leaderboard you'd pay your way into. Whatever you pay, that's your score. Today, I'm launching a new social experiment. A chatroom where you pay for every message you send. Normally chatrooms can get messy quick, because there's no cost to send…

Please go fuck yourself
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