It will be an interesting experiment. I think it will be easy not to use it. If I want to signal in a superior manner all I have to discern which party to pay directly. Please..show me one case where this won't be true. I want to be wrong.
Post by twetch#3375
It's just quicker to discern if you use Boost because you will be closer to good ideas all the time. If you don't use it you will have to spend more time discerning and you will be farther from good ideas.
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Suppose a song gets $1000000.00 worth of Boosts and the content creator gets $5k somehow. Has the content creator been properly incentivized? Or is it really obvious that the wrong party is getting paid?
Boost is an upvote system. It's for when you want attention. It's up to the buyers to value their information correctly. In this scenario, it sounds like the songwriter got enough boost to get a high content ranking for a song that people didn't like.
If you want to consider the viability of your system, you must consider how it can abused. Marketing firms will just buy big boosts and have an unfair advantage over little guys. Sure the little guy will win occasionally but not as a rule.
Boost can't be abused. The winners are those who correctly value their ideas. People with money who overvalue their ideas just lose the money.