[p2p-research] Concept for a Giving Reward System for a Commons

[Ryan Lanham]

I call this, in general, capturing the commons.  It as if a utility becomes
a shareholder focused company rather than a public service.  We do not have
a sophisticated theory describing this phenomenon (if we did I'd guess
Elinor Ostrom would have been involved) and we do not have sophisticated
defenses against the phenomenon.

Ryan

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:

> one big danger is this, and it was very obvious with the similar karma
> point system at o-net : people start behaving strategically, to obtain the
> points, and making them conditional ... it's no longer unconditional
> contributions ... so the crowding out phenomena has to be guarded against
> ...
>
> I favour systems that measure objectively, to avoid gaming,
>
> Michel
>
>   On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Ryan Lanham <rlanham1963 at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>   A person twitters something to a list (or equiv) that has
>> subscribers.  Subscribers can then acknowledge by awarding points.
>>
>> Awards are given based on the perceived value of a gift to a commons.
>>
>> Question: How does one get points to award?
>>
>> Question: How does one use points?
>>
>> Question: What is the difference between points and reputation?
>>
>> Question: Is there a way to convert other currencies including national
>> cash money tokens to points?
>>
>> Question: What is the benefit of points being not scarce?  Scarce?
>>
>> Question: Who loses with such a system?
>>
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