Pay with your ActiveRain points...
Qassia tried it... charging members to comment, rather than paying for comments. Qassia has Qassia dollars rather than points but what if you had to pay with your ActiveRain points for making comments on ActiveRain? What if other ActiveRain members paid you points to comment on your blog?
Join Qassia- Qassia is not just real estate but has a real estate directory. Qassia is a beta.
Would making points cost points (but pay points to the blogger) stop the "water cooler" atmosphere?
Would paying to comment reduce
the "great post thanks for sharing it" type comment?
the gaming "hey come visit my blog since I came to your blog" type comment?
all the "stoopid" comments that add nothing to the conversation...
Would paying to comment be a nightmare... for ActiveRain to implement and keep track of... not just awarding points automatically but transferring points from the commenter paying for the comment to the blogger being paid for the comments... Would paying to comment level the playing field from older members to newer members? Or would it just make it more difficult for newer members to get comments?
It did not work on Qassia... I am not sure the membership of Qassia now but it topped 10,000 in the past month. There was not commenting on Qassia until very recently...
"Free Speech Extended
When we released comments we thought that it was a clever idea to cut down on comment spam by charging users $2 Qassia dollars for leaving a comment. The credit would be transferred to the intel contributor, as a sort of compensation.
But few people left comments, so we dropped the fee to $1.
This had no effect either, so as of today, leaving comments is free of charge."
You do not get Qassia money for commenting... you get points on Qassia for referrals and for adding "intel" content.
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