On 11/6/07, William Pietri william@scissor.com wrote:
Given the small number of actual transactions, it looks like it was never very popular. It's interesting to me that even this wasn't a top-down approach, unlike a lot of more common reward systems. But it does have another characteristic that the "Punished by Rewards" author warns against, which is using rewards to manipulate others for your own ends.
Looks like it has a lot in common with
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bounty except that the latter is pretty much a system of barter (I'll write your FA if you write mine), rather than a general economy.
I don't think they're really "reward" systems as much as they are a way of making social contacts and getting a bit of variety in one's editing. Or at least they should be viewed that way...
Steve