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Using donations to encourage authors

In English, there is the word “donation”, the closest analogue of which in Russian is “donation”. Close, but not equivalent, since donation, besides donation, is also translated as “donation”. That's it about this and will be discussed.



Donations like “gratitude”, “support” or “payment on the fact” are already quite popular in the west. Our task is to increase loyalty to this method of mutually beneficial relations.



Coin voting differs from voting by "+" (plus) in that:

- such a “voice” will be given to useful material, but not necessarily popular

- such a “voice” can be obtained even with a negative article rating

- such a “voice” is not limited either in size or in time (one article may receive one hundred times for a ruble, and the other 500 at a time)

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rules

- donation must be voluntary

- the donation must be anonymous (can be open at the request of the “giver”)

- donations can be made for a specific article, or simply by the author.

- voluntary participation of articles and authors in the rating of donations (if technically possible)







Implementation

You can implement this in at least two ways.

The first is to add the ability to fasten your e-wallet (Yandex or some other).

The second option is to make an embedded monetary system in Habrahabr. Plus the fact that it will be possible to collect ratings not only by "+" (pluses), but also by donations (participation in the rating should be voluntary, with the consent of the author, as already mentioned in the rules). The disadvantages of this option are technically and politically more difficult.



Extra buns

In addition to the donation system, you can enter an order for an article, something like “tell me about ...”. For example, “tell me about the structure of the Linux kernel module.” Habra readers order an article, Habra writers write it, if it is useful for Habra readers, they give money. Here comes a subtle point explaining why donations by default should be anonymous. This is necessary so that it did not work out “you ordered an article for me, but you do not give money”.



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Topics that preceded the writing of this: one and two



PS: Thank you Assoly for the pictures and some ideas.

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/116913/



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