That’d be a good PhD thesis!
Reddit is similar with karma points. There’s lots of posts farming points. But what’s interesting is that some subs recently adopted reward systems tied to money … r/cryptocurrencies has moons.
I don’t have empirical evidence but a lot of people complained about the change saying that now people just post whatever will get them the most money.
Stacker news is like that too. You get zaps for posts or comments. How would the feed compare if it was just worthless points?
Any behavioural economists in the room? 😂