Minds.com sounds like a good idea. What kind of reception are you seeing from users? I have one more question: What's the philosophy behind this points based system?
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Friday February 15, 2019 @01:12PM (#58126874)
The philosophy is neoliberalism or "market fetishism". That is to say, believing markets have properties that they don't actually have.
Internet comments don't work according to market dynamics. Money from outside of the ecosystem will flood the system with commercial spam. Subjectively "good" comments which are insightful, interesting, funny, even subversive or anti-establishment, aren't commercially valuable.
What kind of feedback have you received? (Score:5, Interesting)
Market fetishism (Score:1)
The philosophy is neoliberalism or "market fetishism". That is to say, believing markets have properties that they don't actually have.
Internet comments don't work according to market dynamics. Money from outside of the ecosystem will flood the system with commercial spam.
Subjectively "good" comments which are insightful, interesting, funny, even subversive or anti-establishment, aren't commercially valuable.