Insightful point about how big sites are advertising whether the site is doing it or not - I hadn't thought of it that way. Makes me a little more forgiving of the existence of ads. I wonder what percentage of users browse anonymously? I know the whole idea of Hubski is to personalize your experience, but Reddit focused a bit on that as well, and I know quite a few people who browse all the time on the default subs or specific subs without making accounts. That would make it even harder to track site costs on an individual level.
I post a link, an anonymous person browses the site and clicks the link, or reads the discussion, it's a "cost" I "incurred" ... :-) I dunno, my first multi user system was a mainframe, I kind of like that traditional approach where every cpu cycle is counted and accounted for.
Hmm. It is a pretty elegant idea to have everything divvied up like that. What would you do in the case of someone who just heard about it from a RL friend, googled 'Hubski' and clicked the link?