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comment by Spindel
Spindel  ·  3189 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The social aggregator is a terrible business model.

This is not the answer to the question profit or non profit, but to get some money in for hostig cost etc. Start with some ads (try not making them to intrusive), one or two sponsored post on top of the front page and donations.

Keep the balance books open for members to see costs etc.

If the balance allows it start taking out salary (for the owners/main staff). But democratize this process by letting the users decide that salary.

To make this work you (the owners) propose 2-4 levels for your salary with the lowest (ideally) being that of recommended minimum salary in the country you recide. Then the community vote what they think is fair (out of the suggested salarys) for you to get. After all, even if you work your ass off to create this platform, the community fills it with content that allows you to make money.

Now some years this site might struggle with a deficit and other years it could run with a surplus. How the owners handle this might very well decide if the community is happy or not and thus affect the salarys.

Of course in this case there needs to be a way to stop election rigging (founders creating 20000 dummy accounts just for the voting) but thats a different problem.

Since this is my 2nd post on this site (I'm not from Reddit) you can always ignore what i wrote ;o) but I at least tried to contribute with an idea :o)





user-inactivated  ·  3189 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Just a note about sponsored posts; if you do this please be explicit that the post is in fact sponsored. Otherwise it can come across as deceptive.