Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 03:40:55 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: dannyman <dannyman@toldme.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: questions answered w paypal "tips" Message-ID: <p05100307b74f1732cb18@[194.78.241.123]> In-Reply-To: <20010614170327.O99558@toldme.com> References: <20010614170327.O99558@toldme.com>
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At 5:03 PM -0700 6/14/01, dannyman wrote:
> Then it occurs to me that since, with PayPal, you just click "send
> money" and put in an e-mail address ... I could post a frustrating
> question, and offer $n to the first person to answer it to my
> satisfaction.
[ ... deletia ... ]
> Well, anyway, I'm just tossing this at chat. Maybe it excites somebody,
> maybe someone is already doing this.
There are already websites that do this sort of thing, if not
with actual (or virtual) money, then at least with /.-style "karma",
which you can accumulate and use for things like asking your own
questions, posting advertisements, etc....
I was a member of a web community like this for a brief period of
time, and I could see that some people spent a *lot* of time on the
site, and racked up quite a lot of points. Indeed, I wonder if some
of them weren't trying to actually make this their full-time job.
However, for me, it got boring and I left.
I don't know how this sort of thing would translate to a mailing
list. Perhaps if you set up a separate but affiliated list, and tied
it in with a web site and other community-building exercises
(somewhat akin to what Amazon tries very hard to do), you might be
able to build it into a success. Or not. I dunno.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
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