Thanks for posting op, it's interesting to think about.<p>> Reddit posts are good because the people who create these posts or make comments are doing it to share their knowledge.<p>I would offer a bit of a different perspective here, I think maybe even most do it for what you could call self-soothing.<p>For example, a lot of people share knowledge, but it's _their knowledge_, which can also be defined as _sharing their subjective past_ and that's known to be a very soothing thing for people who may even be troubled by the unknown in their personal lives. Hop online, boom, you're a domain expert in your own past. Find a place that's _about your past_, be it /r/linux or /r/formula1 or whatever, and there you go, it's comfy. You generally get an upvote + reply vibes dopamine bonus just for being there, due to your relevant past.<p>So, Reddit's sooth-sayers (so to speak) are kind of lazy but incentivized-lazy in some ways, which I think can also speak to some issues with the platform surrounding cognitive blind spots and what some here have called the echo chamber effect. That's an opportunity for a new search engine, in some ways, but it also may offer insights to new services that could be even more effective.<p>> And there is no financial incentive associated with it. [posting on Reddit]<p>There is though. I mean I've myself been financially incentivized into doing it, as have probably many, many others. Nothing sneaky, even.<p>You've got people posting their stuff all over the place, and the more community or indie or niche it is, the more welcomed is the post-as-advertisement or comment-as-advertisement. And that's not even going into corporate efforts to operate on the platform, which can be very subtle.<p>> However, once Reddit creates a search engine, and once people get to know that there is an opportunity to game the system and create a financial opportunity,<p>Perhaps--but Google was _really_ good for a very long time. That was worth a lot to millions of people.<p>I like to think that in the future, an ecosystem-mindset toward incentive systems could really help, like planning for different emergent systems that incentivize good results.<p>Anyway, fun to think about, thanks again.