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Feature idea: pay people to criticize an idea.

You start a ‘bounty’ of an arbitrary amount (min. USD 5), which is prorated among eligible critics after some deadline.

There could then be a page for bounties at /bounties. And a page listing a user’s bounties at /:username/bounties.

When starting a bounty, the user writes terms for the kinds of criticism they want. This way, they avoid having to pay people pointing out typos or other unwanted criticisms.

Anyone can start a bounty on any idea. There can only be one bounty per idea at a time.

To ensure a criticism is worthy of the bounty, the initiator gets a grace period of 24 hours at the end to review pending criticisms. Inaction automatically awards the bounty to all pending criticisms at the end of the grace period.

#4126​·​Dennis HackethalOP revised about 2 months ago​·​Original #2442​·​CriticismCriticized1Archived

Veritula should have some way to acknowledge an idea, including a way to show that a thread is resolved, at least for the time being, without having to comment.

#4124​·​Dennis HackethalOP revised about 2 months ago​·​Original #2156​·​CriticismCriticized1Archived

Veritula should have some way to acknowledge an idea, including a way to show that a thread is resolved, at least for the time being, without having to comment.

#4122​·​Dennis HackethalOP revised about 2 months ago​·​Original #2156​·​CriticismCriticized1Archived

Veritula should have some way to acknowledge an idea, including a way to show that a thread is resolved, at least for the time being.

#4120​·​Dennis HackethalOP revised about 2 months ago​·​Original #2156​·​CriticismCriticized1Archived

Posting arbitrary emojis doesn’t achieve that purpose.

Maybe it does. Any kind of reaction is a response that turns a criticism from unacknowledged to acknowledged.

#4118​·​Dennis HackethalOP revised about 2 months ago​·​Original #4102​·​CriticismArchived

The purpose of the reaction would be to record a kind of agreement or acknowledgment.

That way, Veritula could show unacknowledged criticisms to users. So in addition to revising or counter-criticizing, they get a chance to acknowledge a criticism without having to comment.

Posting arbitrary emojis doesn’t achieve that purpose.

#4116​·​Dennis HackethalOP revised about 2 months ago​·​Original #2892​·​CriticismCriticized1Archived

Posting arbitrary emojis doesn’t achieve that purpose.

Maybe it does. Any kind of reaction is a response that turns a criticism from ‘pending’1 to not ‘pending’ anymore.


  1. ‘Acknowledged’ vs ‘unacknowledged’ may be better terminology here, to avoid overlap with the current notion of pending criticisms.

#4114​·​Dennis HackethalOP revised about 2 months ago​·​Original #4102​·​CriticismCriticized1Archived

Edit: …

Pointing out changes is discouraged. Version history and diffing take care of that for you.

#4113​·​Dennis HackethalOP, about 2 months ago​·​CriticismArchived

I think the reason the limited set works well in X spaces is that there’s no text input. So there’s no way to sidestep the restriction.

For Veritula, it would be more like an emoji restriction on tweets. That wouldn’t work because you couldn’t stop people from posting arbitrary emojis in tweets by just typing them with their keyboards.

#4112​·​Dennis HackethalOP, about 2 months ago​·​CriticismArchived

This seems both complicated and restrictive. People could easily sidestep the restriction anyway: nothing stops someone from leaving a comment with only a single emoji in it.

#4110​·​Dennis HackethalOP revised about 2 months ago​·​Original #4105​·​CriticismArchived

Too complicated/ambitious for a first implementation. Start piecemeal. But could be a promising approach if reactions to ideas as a whole end up being ambiguous (#2166).

#4109​·​Dennis HackethalOP, about 2 months ago​·​CriticismArchived

Doesn’t need to be arbitrary emojis, it could just be a handful that you choose, each being a different flavour of acknowledgement.

Thumbs up,
Thinking emoji,
Mind-blown emoji,
Etc.

Edit: X spaces are an example of a limited set of emojis working well.

#4107​·​Benjamin Davies revised about 2 months ago​·​Original #4104​·​CriticismCriticized2Archived

I can speculate ahead of time, but I might implement reactions and find that this is not an issue after all. And if it is, I can either retire the feature or improve it.

#4106​·​Dennis HackethalOP, about 2 months ago​·​CriticismArchived

This seems both complicated and restrictive.

#4105​·​Dennis HackethalOP, about 2 months ago​·​CriticismCriticized1Archived

Doesn’t need to be arbitrary emojis, it could just be a handful that you choose, each being a different flavour of acknowledgement.

Thumbs up,
Thinking emoji,
Mind-blown emoji,
Etc.

#4104​·​Benjamin Davies, about 2 months ago​·​CriticismCriticized1Archived

I like the acknowledged/unacknowledged idea.

#4103​·​Benjamin Davies, about 2 months ago​·​Archived

Posting arbitrary emojis doesn’t achieve that purpose.

Maybe it does. Any kind of reaction is a response that turns a criticism from ‘pending’1 to not ‘pending’ anymore.


  1. ‘Acknowledged’ vs ‘unacknowledged’ may be better terminology here, to avoid overlap with the current notion of pending criticisms.)

#4102​·​Dennis HackethalOP, about 2 months ago​·​CriticismCriticized1Archived

But this doesn’t address the scenario where someone wants to react to no particular paragraph but the idea as a whole.

#4101​·​Dennis HackethalOP, about 2 months ago​·​CriticismArchived

Maybe there could be some type of guide for a user’s ideas generally. It takes him through all of his controversial ideas and let’s him either counter-criticize pending criticisms or revise his ideas, one at a time. And maybe the user could also choose to ‘abandon’ a controversial idea, in which case the guide would not show the idea again (unless maybe there was some new activity on the idea?).

#4089​·​Dennis HackethalOP, about 2 months ago

Implemented as of 39c2686.

#4088​·​Dennis HackethalOP, about 2 months ago​·​CriticismArchived

Then people could occasionally check the search page for ideas they think they can rationally hold but actually can’t. And then they can work on addressing criticisms. A kind of ‘mental housekeeping’ to ensure they never accidentally accept problematic ideas as true.

#4086​·​Dennis HackethalOP revised about 2 months ago​·​Original #2623​·​Archived

Then people could occasionally check the search page for ideas they think they can rationally hold but actually can’t. And then they can work on addressing criticisms. A kind of ‘mental housekeeping’ to ensure they never accidentally accept problematic ideas as true.

#4084​·​Dennis HackethalOP revised about 2 months ago​·​Original #2623​·​Criticized1Archived

Now that there are user profiles (#408), the search page can have an option to filter ideas by user. That way, we can see that user’s uncontroversial ideas, meaning ideas of his that he can rationally hold, and controversial ones, meaning ideas of his that he cannot rationally hold.

#4056​·​Dennis HackethalOP revised about 2 months ago​·​Original #419​·​CriticismCriticized1Archived

No need for new tabs. This feature could be integrated with the search page by filtering ideas by user. That page already has filters for problematic vs unproblematic ideas.

#4055​·​Dennis HackethalOP, about 2 months ago​·​CriticismArchived

Ah, but I can reproduce when I manually make the selection by clicking and dragging to cover the entire quote (and only the quote, nothing above or below).

#4047​·​Dennis HackethalOP revised about 2 months ago​·​Original #2645​·​CriticismArchived