Introducing TLDR - Get Paid for Summaries of Content - Isaac Morehouse
( June 30 or July 1, 2021; Isaac Morehouse )
A new BSV application lets users request summaries of podcasts and videos, charges a fee for people to view the summary, and pays the writers when the summaries are viewed. Can Steem benefit by pursuing the same line of reasoning?
The model is simple. If you see a podcast or video you’d like a summary for, you can find one on TLDR. If there isn’t one, you can add it to the requests feed (SOON:-). Requests are free to create.If you want to create a summary of a piece of content, you can fulfill any open requests, or add your own.
It costs a few cents to post a summary, which helps prevent spam and low-quality entries, and it costs a few tens of cents (between 20-50 cents; we’re still experimenting and adjusting the right pricing) to read summaries for items. After purchasing and reading summaries, you can upvote the best and help them move to the top.
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Morehouse is also the founder and advisor for Praxis, a start-up apprenticeship program.
-h/t coingeek
Addendum:
- The reasoning here is similar to why I'm a fan of Steem Links and "link sharing" in general. People typically don't expect to spend a lot of cognitive effort when "web surfing" or participating in social media activities, so to attract "the masses", an informative, but low-effort, gateway is needed.
- In short, with so many things competing for our attention, cognitive effort is a major barrier to entry for many potential participants.
- Plug: Curators, please consider supporting timely and informative posts in the Steem Links community as a low-effort entry point into the Steem ecosystem.
- For discussion: Might it make sense to set up a community for summaries here on Steem, where members could request summaries of articles or videos, then reward the quality summaries with upvotes. Moderators could keep a running index of the summaries in a "pinned post" at the top of the community. In such a community, how would spam be controlled? Would it be enough to exclude SPAM posts from the pinned index and to mute summary posts that don't assign some sort of a minimum level beneficiary setting to a community curation account?
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Could Isaac Morehouse ever think that his own article "Introducing TLDR - Get Paid for Summaries of Content" will be summarized and mentioned somewhere else? 😂
Steem Links community is doing such kind of efforts for a long time. So it would be an amazing initiative if there is a community in the Steem ecosystem where members could request summaries of articles or videos, then reward the quality summaries with upvotes.
A TLDR-like Steemit community sounds like an innovative idea. However like any community, it would require regular support from generous curators and high quality active entries from users to keep the community alive. Just as signficant upvotes can be used to reward posts of high qualitiy, downvotes with reputation-diminishing effect can be used to deter spammers.
Thanks for the reply. Good point about downvotes. I've never been a big proponent for downvotes, here, because they have been widely abused in the past. But you're right that judicious use of downvotes could help with any SPAM problem that might emerge.
It's a good idea, what you have to do is analyze a little how it would be done. so that in this case people with good summaries are valued.
It would have to be observed if it is feasible to use it on this platform since TLDRs are used when texts or videos are of great length and merit a summary.
Interesting, I support the saying that a single grain of sand does not form a mountain, you need the support of each other to climb, and we must do it with the greatest degree of sincerity so that blessings flow. For you my greetings.
I am going to see more about TLDR. Thanks for sharing