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Does anyone know of any precedent for granting equity to a community site's users? I'm curious to see what sort of dynamic this creates in the site.



> I'm curious to see what sort of dynamic this creates in the site.

As a daily reddit user for 4+ years, I'd wager that it'll just be an exaggerated amount of the same. With any internet community it seems, given enough time, you get saturated by users 'gaming' it for points/karma/post count/etc. So now the same small number of nothing-else-to-do reddit users trawling the archives for repostable karma material have one more incentive to keep up the high-karma-low-content submissions: money. Sorry for the cynicism.


Co-operatives have existed for a long time.


When companies like Redhat and VA Linux IPO'ed, they handed out some options to open source people.


RedditCoin? (Think bitcoin)




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