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[elf Pavlik]

3) learn more about decentralized systems and P2P ? =)
Hopefully it will not bring them nightmares...

Honestly I don't understand how tipping tokens which get exchanged for $
differ from giving money directly? Doesn't sound much like gift economy
from what I understood...

Personally I would recommend them to encourage people to build healthy
relations with other people instead of watching porn on the computer.

Maybe my input doesn't come much helpful here but I don't like when some
people try to make $ on porn. I also have problem to believe that this
company gives much damn about anything else then their revenue!

> 2) They have so much traffic, (>3 billion pageviews/month!)

Makes me think that we have really a lot of healing to go through as
society...

Grumpy,
elf Pavlik


On Sun, 03 Oct 2010 03:17:12 +0900, Robin Upton <robin2008 at altruists.org>
wrote:
> I just got contacted by an investor in a cam4.com, a site which streams
> (adult) video between users. It used to be completely free, but they
> have just moved to a gift economy model. i.e. The site sell tokens to
> the audience who can use these to tip the performers. The best
> performers are getting something like $70/hour, he said. He contacted me
> for strategies to increase the amount of tipping.
> 
> I see two areas of interest here:-
> 
> 1) Moving from just porn to other services which could be provided over
> a webcam, c.f. performance art, consulting, teaching, etc. This could be
> a way of preparing people for a gift economy mindset, as well as
> undercutting commercial provision of these services. I pointed him to
> Money as Debt, with the hope that he would get a bigger picture angle on
> this.
> 
> 2) They have so much traffic, (>3 billion pageviews/month!) so that
> there is a potential for designed experiments on factors influencing
> gifting. I pointed him to http://www.altruists.org/f885 and
> http://www.altruists.org/ae605 off the top of my head. They are already
> thinking along these lines. Could be a good chance to research GUI
aspects.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Robin
> 
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