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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
your upvote is worth 0.4 cents but the other upvotes are worth different amounts. if i upvoted once each month that's a dollar there.