Another option to keep up the value of the content could be the introduction of ‘dislike’. If you get too many of those, you content will be removed. But again, also in this option there are avenues for cheating… that could be tricky to avoid.

That’s precisely the idea that will be implemented in Epic Town (https://epic.town/)!
And that’s very true what you say, in fact also only keeping the “likes” as a reward mechanism, still you can have ways to cheat by creating multiple accounts and liking each-others posts.
In fact for that case we are thinking about a way to limit this risk in…[Read more]

Just some thoughts on the reward system: right now you reward activity. Let’s assume that the page views increase and someone wants to pay for ads. Then they will need to buy rocks. But as soon as there’s a price tag on the rocks people want to get rocks. And since you reward activity and not quality people will start gaming the system and just…[Read more]

Absolutely! This is mainly about putting the foundations for the overall system. Then we need traffic! 👍
And maybe one day we just “port” the system to another website that is clearly more focused on non-crypto topics, but users will anyway be using Ardor because of the reward and Ads system.
Let’s see…
Still waiting for some more ROCKS to be…[Read more]

the ad idea is great but it needs a lot of site traffic.

we dont have that yet but it would be important to test it/go live anyway:)