Can I talk to a product manager or member of executive team? I've been an avid user & lurker here since the wee infancy of the internet, when I found that my appreciation for content was amplified through your platform, user-sourced submissions & all things interesting I couldn't find anywhere else. I'm wondering if I can interest you in an innovative way to turn all your future content generation and curation into financial rewards for your massive userbase, and re-ignite the interest in Tumblr and acquire more users than you could have imagined? I think it'd be helpful after your negative decision re: adult content, and this would revolutionize your platform and make it bleeding-edge.
I'm a fan of your 'free-and-always-free' offering. Have you thought about a cryptocurrency crowdsale? I pitched one when I'd applied to a product management opening you had, but you should really consider it. Your backers and supporters can become contributors, and although I wouldn't brag this anywhere they have the opportunity to see the value of the coin/token grow and their balance grow. Those that are truly behind the site's vision and mission will support more, and under the model I describe below those that have more vested influence will be able to give more monetary reward to contributors and curators on Tumblr platforms. Once economically incentived, your userbase will increase substantially (yes, as will spam - but apt and keen curators will 'downvote' all spam content) and - of course - it's $0 to participate.
Merry Xmas let's get rich! STEEM is market cap $86m USD. Their other coin SBD is $8.3m USD. SMOKE, a sidechain, is $907k. A porn sidechain VIT is $600k USD (at peak after sale $8m USD). Tremendously the guy who founded STEEM went on to create EOS, market cap $2.3 billion.. same tech.
The underlying tech (distributed proof-of-stake, DPoS) is democraticized servers (nodes) and the top # 'produce' blocks and are rewarded a % share of inflation in vested stake, the other % going to project funds in some cases (free $) in vested stake, social algorithms in vested stake(do stuff someone votes on you you get reward - authorship, or you vote on something that becomes popular you get reward - curation), dividends to people who hold vested stake. Interestingly we could pay a % inflation for crowdsourced promotion and referrals, we wouldn't even have to pay our own funds to advertise just free $ we create out of nothing.
The opportunity? I already forked STEEM and had a working sidechain POC, and the frontends I'm proposing are all opensource and easily modified. What's key is 1. finding early adopters and 2. running a crowdsale (incorporated in some Caribbean or Atlantic island state, the CRA hates this stuff), even if the crowdsale is negative ROI it'll generate users...
Anyways the idea? Elevator pitch: 'One DPoS to rule them all... Use free, user-driven blockchain-funded all the internet's most popular sites and earn while you do so. No cost to start and unlimited potential, a proven ecosystem on other platforms becomes a central currency for everything top-50 Alexa-ranked clones or converts'
Wikipedia-dpos
Goodreads-dpos
Imdb-dpos
Fetlife-dpos
Tumblr-dpos
Stackoverflow (and all the other Stack sites)-Dpos
Facebook w/o ads or personally identifiable info-Dpos
Same idea for Twitter-esque social-Dpos
Yelp-dpos
Advertising marketplace-dpos
(Any database or review system you like)-Dpos
What I'm looking to achieve with this email: I'm wondering if I can get a backup of your site, then modify the interface to support DPoS functions like up/downvoting and commenting and etc, then roll out an end-to-end ability for contributors and curators to earn cold hard money for enjoying the fun. Do you have statistics re: views on individual pages? We can use conversion/traffic ratios among contributors to award everyone a different initial value, to incentivize use and also so that more prolific members get more ability and influence on the new system, right off the bat.
blakekathryn
tangentwithtanner
andulkaphoto
jacobvanloon
turnnoffyourmind
snowghoul
