[yywwbbn]

> As it stands I don't make any money on this, I just do it for fun. But with a site like non.io there's no reason for me _not_ to post my content there.

I’m obviously not targeting this at you but a business model likes this (paying fractions of a penny per upvote) is not likely to attract high quality content. In fact the opposite it incentives a quantity over quality approach (i.e. content has to be just good enough to get upvoted spending more effort is wasted)

[jdironman]

Niche groups, high quality content, users who don't upvote everything I think is the goal. Not up voting 100 cat videos or memes and then wishing you could upvote a post that really helps you out on something or leads to good discussion. I think it tries to place weight on your upvote to mean more than just ticking something up but remind you that you are putting your money into someone's else's pocket and has what they provided you with worth it? It'd small enough that you don't feel like you're out too much monthly, but probably big enough for posts with upvotes in the thousands to give back to quality content creators (haven't done any math but yeah)

[PMunch]

Exactly. Of course everyone used Reddit differently, but personally I basically never upvoted anything unless I really enjoyed it. The big question for me would be what happens to my funds if I don't upvote anyone in a given month, do they roll-over to the next month? Do they go to server management? Do they go into a separate pool to do something else fun with?

In a way Reddit did distinguish their usual "this content is better than the one below" upvote with "this is amazing content" by giving Reddit gold. A similar system could be used here. One thing that made Reddit great was that since people up (and maybe more importantly) downvoted content good stuff would float to the top. It would be pretty bad if upvotes where too meaningful as that would drive away engagement.

[dllthomas]

Fractions of a penny from people who upvote a lot. A full dollar if it's someone's only upvote for the month. I'm not convinced quantity wins... although I am very much not convinced that it doesn't, either.

[alvarezbjm-hn]

What if there was a large button for upvote, and beside a smaller button for 100x upvote?

Regular users can upvote 100 cat pictures for their dopamine hit, and when they find an ACTUALLY VALUABLE post they can look for the small button.

[lonk11]

Medium did this with "claps". Press once for a single clap. Press and hold to add multiple claps proportional to the time you hold it.

[PMunch]

Like Reddit gold you mean? (before they created all these silly other awards)