Because the general election is probably in May, things should be changed a bit. This is the plan:
I’ll publish an article which will address Just Stop Oil. Because the way they promote their ideas (by disrupting things, etc) is the opposite of how things should be promoted. They currently want big companies to reduce their profits and earnings for the good of society and the earth. This is called donation. In reality, they ask companies to donate and to encourage companies to do so they block roads, etc.
So one part of the project is to redefine donation and how it should work. The second part is that since political parties use a top-down approach to run their rallies, the aim is to provide a platform where people can earn money by supporting what they want to support.
So I’ll write an article and discuss the shortcomings of the disruption approach and explain an alternative approach which is this platform. Since it is about election the coordinators of the project will earn absolutely no money in this project all money will be paid to users of the platform. So companies willing to advertise themselves directly pay users.
Currently on social media platforms, likes and shares have the same weight. Each like or share is a type of donation. People would like to donate to content generators but instead, they promote it by liking or sharing them and companies pay for that content. The content generators and people who promote the content will earn money. So if a user promotes 10 posts and 4 of them are paid, this user’s next promotions will weigh more than another user who promotes 10 posts but 2 of them are funded. Also, those who promote a post earlier get more weight than those who promote already popular posts. So people get paid for content generation and promotion.
In the article, I’ll outline the overall project and things that should be developed. Companies can also pay developers to develop those sections. However, the project should be as simple as possible and the development phase shouldn’t be complex.
UPDATE 1:
here content refers to all types of social media updates, social gatherings, ideas, etc.
Before writing the article I’ll contact people in the Guardian and discuss the idea.
UPDATE 2:
This platform is a bit different from other platforms where users have a list of following/followers, etc. and view new updates from people in their lists. Here, each post is an event. Events might be social gatherings, discussions about a debate, or any other event. Events are created and defined by users (define means specifying the structure of the event). Then other users add new stuff to different events. So one event might contain mainly texts and discussions about organizing a social event, or another event might contain videos/images/ etc. about a topic.
Because the general election is in 3-4 months the targeted advertisement mechanism cannot be very complex. Most of it can be handled manually, meaning that content creators associate tags with events. Also, it’s good if users are presented with a list of companies wishing to donate. Imagine a user gets lots of points, he/she then can be given a list of companies willing to sell their products to them with a discount or pay them directly, etc. Users will then have an option and choose their rewards themselves. So it’s a semi-targeted ad mechanism. it’s simpler than complex AI algorithms. It’s better for the users too, they can accumulate their points for a big discount or something instead of winning many small things. This method simfiles the ad mechanism a great deal because most of the functionality is being done manually by users themselves.
So it’s not a targeted ad at all. Companies list what they wish to offer. Then users select their rewards based on their points. So instead of companies searching for users who might be interested in their products, users themselves will search through the list of rewards and offerings.