Well, I don't know if this is the way to do it, but there have been times where my mind has been blown by projects submitted to HN where I wanted to communicate my utter amazement at what they had accomplished. I remember the time where a guy was offered a job by joshu in the comments for his submission.
Maybe we could start it out as a crowd-pledging venture where the community can pledge a commitment to contribute to the success of a product without the need for the creators' consent. If the creators accept the commitment, they can hash over the details with the committers subsequently.
One way to go about it would be to create a separate "pledge" economy from karma that still utilizes HN's default interface (for, say, karma>1000). Very flattr-like, I guess.
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Well, I don't know if this is the way to do it, but there have been times where my mind has been blown by projects submitted to HN where I wanted to communicate my utter amazement at what they had accomplished. I remember the time where a guy was offered a job by joshu in the comments for his submission.
Maybe we could start it out as a crowd-pledging venture where the community can pledge a commitment to contribute to the success of a product without the need for the creators' consent. If the creators accept the commitment, they can hash over the details with the committers subsequently.
One way to go about it would be to create a separate "pledge" economy from karma that still utilizes HN's default interface (for, say, karma>1000). Very flattr-like, I guess.