I thought about how to incentivize users to watch ads for a long time... but eventually came to the conclusion that users don't want to watch ads, even if they make $ doing it. I can't even watch a TV show without my DVR nowadays. Commercial advertising is dying.
I think Steemit's model is better, but the problem here is all of the bots and early adopters skewing which content is seen.
Incentive models for user generated content is in it's infancy in my opinion. EOS, Smart Media Tokens... a lot of new models will be built using this tech.
I agree with a lot of what you said here. You may be right about the advertising. I'm not entirely convinced though.
I don't necessarily think that early adopters are a "problem," though, as Steemit was, from the start, a stake-weighted voting platform. Trust me, though, I have suffered at the hands of those fish larger than I several times on here, so I do get it.
Agree. Thanks for commenting.