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> Something as simple as an organic comment promoting a product can actually drive real sales, and the John Doe that posts such a comment gets zilch. Of course, if you incentivise this, you destroy comments entirely as they fill with people pretending to be organic product recommendation. I (and I think quite a lot of other people) devalue information when someone has been paid to bring that recommendation to us, bec…
> they fill with people pretending to be organic product recommendation Only if it's free to post, right? If no one has skin in the game, then you'll get spammers. Consider a simple system where people pay 10 gold to post and 1 gold to vote. At the end of the month, the pot of gold is paid out to the top posts and the voters who made the best bets. I am not a game theorist/economist, but perhaps there is a set of rul…
Re: Changes to the YouTube Partner Program
#271I think the only place I've ever found where it's not free to post was Metafilter, where it was a one-off charge of $5 as an anti-spam measure. And it went to pay the moderators.