Sarcasm 1) Where would this money come from? Of course someone will pay, there is no such thing as a free lunch. I would see it coming from ad revenue but that doesn’t mean the site would be bogged down with them. It could be like the CBS, and ABC sites etc. I can watch rebroadcast of shows free because they are sponsored by different businesses.
2) This would really promote lurve-gaming, and “you scratch my back, I’ll scratch your back” methods, for optimize money. The beauty of software, you can have a program that would track the activity between members and either shut it down automatically report it to the moderators.
3) It would also promote people simply answering everything they can, even if they don’t actually know what they’re talking about, in hopes that somebody will give them a GA. That would likely backfire because of the before mentioned point, also if one has to get a certain amount of larvae to count, for example, simply answering anything and everything any way will trigger the software and still not get you enough to meld points.
Or will silly/funny quips be worth just as much as incredibly informative quips? Or what about those GA’s given for quips that people just agree with? Just has your word processor can tell if your grammar is off or what word you were trying to spell if you got close but not quite, programming, I believe, can decipher the question and see how well by way of key words or other algorithms to rank the answer’s relevance, so quips will have little chance and software can even tip off moderatos who will ax them as they do now.
Done right it would not be bogged down with ads or loaded with crap.