

Ask YC:  Are merit-based ads a good idea?  Appearance probability proportional to karma/score/etc. - amichail

I've added this feature to Numbrosia:<p>http://numbrosia.com/?cmd=puzzle_p
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dkokelley
This is a very interesting idea. In fact, a concept like this may very well go
beyond the game itself.

Please keep us informed on how your score based ads work out.

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misterbwong
Definitely sounds like a good idea. Add to that a decent message/spam
filtering mechanism (like karma) and you're in business.

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alex_c
That is very interesting.

I would be grateful if you let us know in a couple of days (or enough time to
get a decent data set?) how many people are using the feature (and if it has
any noticeable effect on user behaviour), and what kind of clickthrough rates
the ads have...

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pchristensen
I'd also like to hear some results from this.

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davidw
Interesting idea. It's something fairly cheap to give people with whatever
kind of points, and probably also makes sense in terms of habitual users being
the ones most likely to have points and ignore ads.

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NSX2
My point exactly. This is one of the more interesting ideas I've come across
on Y ... and as you say it's cheap and I bet people can come up with the nuts
and bolts relatively easily.

Who's talking about it here? Now compare the top posts at the same time as
this and perhaps you can understand what I'm talking about?

And yet, "Do you watch TV" got like, 100+ responses in mere hours ...

I hope this post becomes popular because this is an idea worth at least
discussing, if not pursuing.

Bet not too many people will pay attention to it though ...

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pchristensen
I like this. This could be a big change in how ads are served online, and
since ad-supported is one of the most important business models for internet
sites, that's saying something.

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tim2
Not a total departure from how some people have used many other sites. Eg, the
more friends you have on myspace, the better you can advertise your band; the
more popular your youtube video, the better you can use it to promote
something; same goes for blogs.

Of course, the way it's being used here works off of a skill that nearly all
of his users are known to have, unlike the youtube example.

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tim2
That is an interesting idea.

I will probably try this with my site and make it based on points earned today
or this week.

