I recently saw someone mention Autonomi needs an app that can go viral to draw public attention. I’ve been thinking for a while and adjusted a concept I’ve been having for a while now to fit Autonomi and its needs. I’m creating a post to see if people think it could have potential. Personally I think it could become a massive hit, especially now with Autonomi.
Anyway. Introducing: “Pillory”
The concept is quite easy. People can create an entry in a database of people and/or companies that they think deserve to be on the Pillory for their behavior. This could be anything that “we” as a society frown upon. People can vote this entry to the top of the leaderboard, in this case by spending ANT like in the Impossible Future. I’ve not thought this concept out entirely yet because this used to be a for-profit idea. But I’d say for the sake of Autonomi, it should be locked for a period of time and then returned to the user. If the people or the companies don’t like the bad publicity, they can remove the entry by paying x amount of ANT for every vote they’ve received. Obviously, these ANTs should be either burned or donated to the Autonomi Foundation or something.
Wondering what you guys think. Is it worth exploring?
Edit: Figured I’d add an image too 
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Yeah, I definitely miss an icon of angry face or a rotten tomato in this forum 
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Could be an interesting concept; kind of an open complaints book type thing.
I can think of some companies I’d like to pillory, but wonder if it’d be possible to avoid it being spammed into uselessness by e.g. competitors unfairly pillorying each other to make them look worse etc?
Maybe the voting mechanism will reduce such spamming, but on a distributed system I expect it may be easy to game & hard to stop that kind of activity that could reduce the usefulness of the service.
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Well yeah, but once people start to care enough to upvote competitors we’ve already won didn’t we? If a vote requires a lockup period for say a year, that would take a lot of coins out of circulating supply. Combine that with a bunch of demand for people wanting to vote and people that want to buy their name of the list. I think it could work. Possibly we’d have to finetune the voting mechanism a bit. But if we provide a slick UI/UX I think this could work.
Maybe more importantly, on the regular internet every big company and their mother will try to take down the hosting of such platform. What a publicity it will be if they find out that this is a hosting they cannot censor.
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It’s an interesting thread to tug on.
Perhaps honest consumer reviews in general would be good. It costs to submit the data, which would discourage spam. Without hosting fees, adverts could be avoided, which can bias the results too. Obviously immutability is also a benefit, at least for brutally honest reviews.
It could also pluggin to shops and such, so it isn’t centralised (like amazon reviews, for example).
But maybe the simple concept of naming an shaming would be unque and fun enough on its own? Libelous stuff could get posted and anonymity maybe desired.
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Worth a try I think.
Maybe it could be combined with web-of-trust type concepts that will likely be needed elsewhere on the network so that people can view reviews / compliants from trusted groups etc?
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