What if Steemit went head-to-head with disqus?
What if you could use your Steemit account to comment on a Washington Post story, and get paid if enough people upvoted your comment?
What if Steemit offered a blog comment hosting service for websites like disqus does, except that now those websites offer their readers the chance to make some money for engaging, at no expense to the website themselves?
Wouldn't this be a terrific way to bring blockchain technology to the unsuspecting masses?
Isn't that a WIN for the website? And a WIN for the reader? And a WIN for Steemit/Steem?
The only loser I see here is disqus.
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this is a great idea! Disqus makes money off of our comments... Forget that, we should make some of that money also!
It's a great idea! I think a site like the Washington Post would need to be financially incentivised though. Currently sites can earn money from Disqus because sponsored links are included within the Disqus widget, and the publisher earns a cut from those. With what you're proposing I think only the commenters would be rewarded, not the article publisher. Maybe if the publisher also published the article to Steem, either the full article or an except, and then some how that and the comments were linked. Then the article could gather rewards and those would go to the publisher, meanwhile the commenters reward each other and build community around the news site.
I upvote U