anthony1s

It's been a while since I started this thread, but I wanted to share that this idea is being developed. I'm in no way involved with it. Just posting this as an "I told you so" to the naysayers. If it succeeds or fails is up in the air, but it's interesting to me nonetheless. https://steem.io/#whitepaper

You are failing to see the value in different forums though. Tom's Hardware is well regarded as having the best answers and most intelligent community and their forums reflect that. More people will happen upon a better forum when their search results are ranked much higher because of the quality of answers they provide. Also, paying for answers will attract answer-givers away from the popular free answer forums. Because answer-givers will be incentivized to more to the paying forums.

-what if the best answer changes ? do both people get payed ? Best answer would not change. The best answer is chosen at the time from of the question being asked. -what if people create fake accounts ? Have people send an amount of Bitcoin or Litecoin to the forum's wallet to verify their account. Make it too expensive to create fake/spam accounts. what about dealing with transactions ? What about it, specifically? would ltt pay for answers, or the op ? Well, I'm not sure what's best. Another option would be to have subscriptions. Subscriptions services could be the income. if op pays, how do you know he will pay ? We can use multi-sig transactions. Were there are multiple private keys created for a bitcoin address. Say there are 3 private keys created... you would need 2 of the 3 to send the money.... So 1 private key goes to the forum, one goes to the OP, one is sent to the person who provides the best answer. Person with the best answer then inputs the private key he was given into a payout field box on the forum... inputting this key will release the funds. OP can also hold a key... if OP doesn't received and answer in a decided amount of time, then he can input his key and release the funds back to him. what if there is no answers ? If OP were to pay for an answer, they could take their money back via multi-sig I described above.

it is already done in code. Search for distributed autonomous corporations. Then search for DAC Insurance. Search for anything related to this...

#1 Irrelevant to the fact, but yes. It would is possible and is proven possible already #2 Answer what? I said that you pointed out a valid concern #3 People do not have time to research and find their own answers. This is demonstrated by the success of forums. I am not here to discuss if you guys like this idea or not. I created this post to discuss the implementation of it. Whether you like it or not, profiting from the community will be more popular in the future. I am mostly trying to start a valuable discussion on decentralizing and incentivizing it for us as the community. Instead of seeing more stuff like Steam talking a 70% cut from community created mods.

Then why do forums exist if the information can be found somewhere else? Why are they successful?

#1 this would be prevented in code. #2 this is a valid concern #3 just because you don't expect to be paid doesn't mean you shouldn't be nor should anyone else be.

How is my idea making me money? Also, this idea is well implemented on GitHub already.

Haha, yea. I felt that it sounded the same as I was typing it. Was too lazy to think of a better way of wording it.

I think you are missing the "Where does the money come from" chain.

Passion or not, you should get paid for your contributions. You are selling yourself short by believing anything otherwise.

My idea is that only the best answer would be what gets paid. There would be no "is he saying to do that because he's getting paid per post/like or because he has to" No one would be obligated to say anything. No one would get paid per post. People would be incentivized to give better answers. The question to think about is, how is the best answer decided? It needs to be decided in a decentralized manner, as in no minority has any influence over who is ultimately getting paid. Obviously once this is decided, it can all be programmed and money sent out automatically with bitcoin or litecoin.

Why? This comment is useless without an explanation.

Hello. I guess I should introduce myself first. I've been watching Linus on Youtube for a number of years now. I haven't had a reason to check out this forum until now. I have an idea that I'd like to share and discuss. After hearing about Steam's community paid mods, I knew I had to finally post this. How would you guys like to earn money for helping people via forums? Helping out in forums and other means has been something I've been passionate about for the last 7 years. It really grows communities by spreading knowledge and ideas. Forums are the best places for help, because chances are someone has already had your problem and it's documented and solved in a forum somewhere already. Or documentation can be easily searched for online and a solution found to many problems. What I am passionate about, and I'm sure many of you are too, is being the person to research the problem's solution and provide help to the poster. I know I can't be the only person who's spent 16 hours a day helping people with their problems before. Helping people brings me so much gratification, but I just wish I was able to make a living and support myself by doing it. And forums are even used by highly paid employees for help. The deployment engineers at my job rely on Microsoft forums for help and they even help out in the forums too. What I'm envisioning is having the Linus Tech Tips forums incentivize it's members for helping out by paying them. And if this catches on at other forums, we might be able to make a living by being the helpful and dedicated community members that we already are. Some loose concerns and thoughts (I have my own answers to these and will post them later) What is the best payment method?. How do we decide which helpful response is the one that deserves to be paid? Where would the money to pay us come from?