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RE: Facebook Nags Businesses to Promote Posts. Is this in our Steemit Future?
Advertising on Steemit should follow this rule: The user is in control and is compensated for the attention they choose give away.
I like this idea.
I agree. I was thinking how nice it would be to have an opt-in option to see promotional posts in your feed which you could then get a bit of a reward on. I get that burning SBD to @null has value, but I still think there's so much money in advertising that we could change this in the future to bring some of that money back to those who read the ads.
Another interesting idea would be to let them share in the rewards for the ad posts. If the ads are bad, they get low reward and people will not incentivized to opt in to see them. If the ads are really informative, entertaining, interesting, etc... they will get high rewards distributed to those who opt in.
The problem with this, of course, revolves around advanced game theory challenges and how any "pay to play" system can be gamed and drain the reward pool in a manner which will ultimately bring down the utility and value of the whole system. It's complicated stuff and many don't want to engage with the game theory side of it to find robust solutions.
It is complicated stuff, but we'll have top minds on it, top minds.