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>>jjcm+(OP)
I feel like having people get paid for upvotes is going to create a massive amount of bad incentives.

>>alexb_+ig
So each user puts a dollar a month into upvote cash. I think i upvote ~10 things per day on Reddit. I use Reddit most days, so say 250 things a month. Given the same pattern of behaviour, each one of my upvotes is worth 0.4 cents.

A post getting 1000 upvotes earns $4. That's already quite a lot of upvotes, enough to get on the first page of a reasonably big sub. Posts on r/all (today, which may be abnormal) are at 10-50k, so would earn $40-$200.

$200 would be nice to have! But these don't seem like prizes that would motivate residents of first-world countries, considering that you have to have one of the most-upvoted posts on the whole site to win them.

>>twic+So
I probably upvote more like 1-2 things a day (on Hackernews, I don’t have a Reddit account). I’m pretty curious what effect it would have, that my opinion would be “worth” (in this sort of system of course—in reality, my opinion is worth very little!) around 10x as much as yours.