[CommunityDiscussion] A new DM project to incentivize information sharing

Every other week I make donations. First to Tails, for being a user, I feel compelled to contribute. Then to Tor, again as a user I feel compelled to contribute. Lastly i donate to a project that Seems interesting. This week it was slur.io a project that apparently allows bidders to bid on secret information. That would have made Snowden a millionaire, not that it would have mattered to him, but a project like this would definitely allow more transparency.

Any thoughts on the project. Never seen anything like it.


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[2 Points] Theeconomist1:

Information in the public interest shouldn't be sold to the highest bidder imo. I don't know if it'd allow for more transparency with exception it may motivate people to give info out but depending who the bidder is, it may never make it out.

Any government can bid on it and keep it secret in other words. I guess you'd still have the original person with knowledge of it but if there motivation is the dollar they may not release at all.

Not saying that there isn't something there. I'm mainly playing devils advocate to the more transparency concept. It could actually keep information more closed perhaps.


[1 Points] Theeconomist1:

So, my other comments I think speak for larger, more whistleblower oriented pieces of information. I don't think that's where the focus should be for reasons I mentioned. BUT, that being said, I could see this as something potentially worth exploring for smaller pieces of information. I could see good value in something that would reward content creators with something. I guess it's something like the changetip or the tipping bots, but if it'd motivate people to write a very well written review for instance, maybe there could be somethign there. Obviously you'd have to worry about scammers just creating bullshit content or fake shit, but if you could somehow weed through that, that might be something sort of cool. And maybe vendor reviews aren't quite the right thing to incentivize with this, it just serves as an example of a smaller, but still valuable, piece of information. But I think you get the drift. Its an interesting idea and like I said, I don't see it working well with important, public interest type information, BUT I could see this working well for smaller content contributors. Maybe in a sense it would be analogous to giving reddit gold.