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I remember you saying you'd remove stickers if users would let you. I like them, but I think they could be used for reputation tracking in a more interesting way than a single global reputation score.

A single reputation metric collapses different social perspectives into one number. My guess is that a significant amount of user churn occurs when someone's reputation becomes negative, even if they're valued within a particular subcommunity. Ideally, idiosyncratic users should be able to thrive within their own niche rather than be discouraged by negative ratings from people outside it.

Firstly, Instead of treating sticker totals as reputation, use stickers to construct a signed social graph.

For any user:
  • Allies are users they consistently rate positively.
  • Enemies are users they consistently rate negatively.
  • Nemeses are users who are most positively rated by their enemies.
The "nemesis" relationship would be particularly interesting. People often want to know who sits at the center of the groups that oppose them or to find the steelman of the opposing viewpoint.

Secondly, separate expression from reputation. Right now a sticker serves two functions at once:
  1. Expressing an opinion about a post.
  2. Changing the author's reputation.
Those should be independent. Someone should be able to say "I agree" or "this is dumb" without necessarily effecting reputation. Solution: more stickers! Give each sticker a dropdown menu for positive/negative/neutral sentiment. (Maybe a closed trashcan for "dumb, but I still like you", open trashcan for neutral, and an open trashcan buzzing with flies for "dumb and I hate you", etc. These could be summed together for the tallies at the bottom of the post with the difference only visible when the "Members who reacted to message" window is opened.)

Finally and most importantly, replace the single global reputation with multiple reputations computed over the graph:
  • Reputation among allies.
  • Reputation among enemies.
  • Reputation according to Null (obviously the most important).
  • Optionally, a global reputation score.
Importantly, these reputations should be transitive. If Null pos-rates User A, and User A pos-rates User B, then User B should inherit some positive Null reputation even if Null has never interacted with them directly. More generally: reputation should propagate through the graph with decreasing weight.

This proposal preserves more information than a single scalar reputation score and turns stickers into a genuine community-discovery and trust-network mechanism. Stickers are unusually valuable because they're simple, rewarding to use, and highly visible signals. Even if they're somewhat frivolous, they're probably one of the strongest community-building tools on the site. That's why people pay for special stickers. You could monetize stickers further by allowing users to pay to put more than one sticker on a post.
 
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The Automated Grass Initiative (AGI)
A rage detector that as a user is formulating a foaming reply, checks if the user's MATI based on his recent posts and locks him out temporarily with a slideshow of nature and quotes that remind him of the importance of the outside world.
 
i asked my robot about it and it said i shoudl tell you about "animal inspired AI architecture"

i dont have a usecase, its very hypothetical and more about how the robots think rather then what they think in particular,

so it would be setting up AI to start closer to how specific animal brain are arranged, in order to use the perceived advantages of the animal brain for specfic tasks.

so using a dog brain lay out for laying out ai that processes smell data. or using a bugs brain for visual data processing.

i dont know enough about what im talking about to understand how it works, but im sure an ai with money could tell if its nonsense or something worth adding to the toolbox.
 
You make memes with subliminal messages in them. You sell them to the government - uh I mean, companies.

You do it publicly.

Meanwhile, you use credits to bot tf out of a fake "grass roots" organization warning against this very thing (so make sure you do this first). Make sure you create a helpful donation link.

Prophet.
 
It's been a while so I don't know if he's still running it, but maybe run a live gunt counter (with the whole :gunt: emote and all) every time Ralph mentions certain words on Killstream (e.g., Maker's Mark, Josh "Judas" Moon etc.) and make that counter increase the size of the "YOURE GONNA CARRY THAT GUNT" sub-banner in the Ralph board
 
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Procedurally generated collectible and tradeable KiwiKards.

They are gifted to users that participate in threads, the Kard is themed around the thread subject. People that participate in a single thread a lot get duplicates of the thread Kard that they can trade away to people who participate in different areas of the site.

Anti-spam guardrails: Users who seem to be posting to farm KiwiKards get threadbanned, their KiwiKard Kollection frozen, and are thusly ineligible for any further KiwiKard distributions.
 
Perhaps sell "AI analysis" features to dramatubers, and include in the license conditions that you must credit the farms in any video made using the tools for research.

ETA: Or perhaps use AI to distinguish "content" posts from "commentary" posts, and make the commentary posts much smaller so that threads are dominated by the actual content.
 
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Could it make a sort of kiwi farms Kalshi, a sort of Kalshiwifarms of sort where people could bet one what they think will happen to a lolcow next much like polls but gain points to prove they truly understand the mind of psychotic lolcows. This coukd be things like deaths deadpool or if dsp will God bankrupt or get divorced first.
 
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