Price Discovery Of Idle Knowledge -- Yahoo Answers/Quora with STEEM as backend
Whenever I google a question, whether it's a good one or a really stupid one, I'm always surprised that someone else had the exact same question and actually took the time to ask it Yahoo Answers or on Quora.
Classic right there
My personal experience can be summed up as follows: too lazy... can't be bothered to type the question somewhere other than a search engine... always google.
Now had I been PAID to post the question, I might have posted it to SteemAnswers.com or something similar, which would be a site that specializes in just Q&A.
I don't think I need to explain why STEEM would be perfect for this but I can't not say anything can I?
Incentive
"Powerful incentive"
This specialised site/feature/front end would incentivize every curious human (that knows about STEEM) to actually go ahead and list the questions that their brain is wondering about. How do I know if I should buy a house? Where can I find cheap flights? Why is the sky blue? How is babby formed?
If it's a good question, it will rise to the top and earna da monies.
Incentive strikes again
Obviously, people would also have an incentive to give the best answers they can. I believe this simple front end would blow Yahoo Answers out of the water and with a few iterations compete with Quora users.
The big picture is...
Price discovery of idle knowledge
The side effects of all this are that, yes, STEEM to da MOONz, of course. But more importantly, humans would now for the first time face the cost of not sharing their knowledge.
And this people is where I will let your own minds extrapolate and imagine the butterfly effect a simple website like this could have on the world.
Found this on the Steem White Paper:
Very good idea, I would love to see another use of the Steem blockchain rather than Reddit / Medium style website.