Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 23:13:38 -0700 From: dannyman <dannyman@toldme.com> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: questions answered w paypal "tips" Message-ID: <20010614231338.B391@toldme.com> In-Reply-To: <p05100307b74f1732cb18@[194.78.241.123]>; from brad.knowles@skynet.be on Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 03:40:55AM %2B0200 References: <20010614170327.O99558@toldme.com> <p05100307b74f1732cb18@[194.78.241.123]>
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On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 03:40:55AM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote: > There are already websites that do this sort of thing, if not > with actual (or virtual) money, then at least with /.-style "karma", [...] > 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. Kinda like people who make their living off eBay. I tend to figure it might be a good source of fundages for whiz-kids with more free-time and intelligence than spare cash for hardwares and romances. > 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. Well, if we wanted to get hard-core, one could do a web archive of a mailing list, that kept track of people by their e-mail address, and their karmic scores. Actually, if you had a proper web archive you could just search for responses / questions others have asked to determine how helpful / friendly / generous they are with the community. Community being the ultimate goal. :) Then you'd support "log in" (send password to person's claimed e-mail address) and maybe track karma. The money can be up to people. Giving money for answers would encourage your correspondants to raise your karma rating. Then, though, you start fretting about bribery. Anyways, stuff to dream on. -danny -- http://dannyman.toldme.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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