Thats what i been wondering, if they are trying to make the platform better of just get as much money out of it as fast as possible.
I seriously cant think of a single reason to remove the view counter, it was put in place to combat self upvoting sock puppet account bots.
:/
The fundamental problem with paying people for content is that it turns everyone into spammers and advertisers. I've been toying with using my software to throw together a simple chat platform. I'm tired of the idiots who lead this industry.
Just seems like steps backwards to me tbh.
Every system can be gamed. Selfishness ruins everything. The stupid thing about this platform is that it actually pays people to be selfish during their basic interactions, such as this conversation. For any social system to work, you just gotta start with unselfish people, people who will say to themselves, "Sure, I could game this system. But that's not the kind of person I am."
USENET and SMTP (email) worked just fine for many many years while it was accessible only by academics and military people. These people behaved themselves, partly because they had a high education level, and partly because it was a small community and there would be consequences for misbehavior.
But when USENET and SMTP became accessible to the general population, it didn't take attorneys (scum of the society) long to invent email spam. For then on, everyone has been trying to solve the problem using technology.
The only solution that will work is for unselfish people to separate themselves from the selfish people and not let them ruin everything.
Unfornatly assholes gona act like assholes.
lol