17mNxa3wLR3UpkxzBHkTQ1ynn6boQ3zGjY (2584) ·
Recap: I suggested an upvote system that pays commissions. That has a better chance of getting someone to pay an upvote paywall because they may find it easy to stay make their money back. I also suggested making an Upvote token. People like tokens.
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18LKokwnerDApeoM2kAEL5QKc2nmDMe316 (1927) ·
Tips as upvotes, even with commissions, are not sybil proof. On top of that it is usually not profitable for the one tipping. The concept of a token is also not necessarily sybil proof. If you'd have to buy the tokens, you might as well use Boost instead.
17mNxa3wLR3UpkxzBHkTQ1ynn6boQ3zGjY (2584) ·
Boost might as well be a token that the miners redeem. Neat. Except Boost miners are extraneous and both content creators and the business marketing the product need the money.
17mNxa3wLR3UpkxzBHkTQ1ynn6boQ3zGjY (2584) ·
When users are tokenized with a reputation record, it is sufficiently sybil proof. If you suck at upvoting good content, then of course it will not be profitable.
18LKokwnerDApeoM2kAEL5QKc2nmDMe316 (1927) ·
A reputation record based on what? And I didn't say that you can't make profit off of that system. It CAN
18LKokwnerDApeoM2kAEL5QKc2nmDMe316 (1927) ·
Woops. It CAN be very profitable. But the point is that it's not sybil proof, which defeats the purpose of it being a meaningful rating system.
17mNxa3wLR3UpkxzBHkTQ1ynn6boQ3zGjY (2584) ·
Based on the ratings of your social network..your circle of friends you might say, of their circle of friends..an extended network of trusted entities you might say.
18LKokwnerDApeoM2kAEL5QKc2nmDMe316 (1927) ·
How could this hypothetical system be sybil proof without proof of work or a potentially intrusive/unwanted identity system?
18LKokwnerDApeoM2kAEL5QKc2nmDMe316 (1927) ·
Yes, boost mining is a seperate service that you have to pay for. But you can integrate boost outputs into transactions that also facilitate payments for content creators and/or the underlying service without adding much cost onto the transaction.
17mNxa3wLR3UpkxzBHkTQ1ynn6boQ3zGjY (2584) ·
I don't really see what is so complex about this. Of course you can filter to ignore the likes of anonymous cowards or people without reputation or other criteria that renders bogus likes worthless.
17mNxa3wLR3UpkxzBHkTQ1ynn6boQ3zGjY (2584) ·
I'm anonymous on here .. kinda .. but I'll bet your extended circle of friends will have no problem whitelisting me such that my upvotes carry weight..or even perhaps more weight than other anonymous people.
17mNxa3wLR3UpkxzBHkTQ1ynn6boQ3zGjY (2584) ·
On associations and your activities on the platform. It should be characterized more as a profile than a reputation. And a profile system should be able to easily separate the sybils from real people because the profile is based on humanPoW.