I think that this is the most original and best idea of the bunch! The idea is nothing like "facebook" you gain nothing from a facebook like except some form of popular acceptance.

PC, I'm begging you now put this one through and get it into action this is by far the best thing for the Business District. Spammers can spam all they want but they won't get anything.

enkindle, nice work man love it.

I also think it's a good idea to show the earnings of a thread/post it will give people more initiative to follow in others footsteps to also get the rewards from a good thread/post.

I have a hard time seeing whether this would work or not. I understand how it's supposed to work but I don't know if people will hand out those amounts just to praise a post. This suggestion forces people to pay for what essentially is an 'upvote' I'm not sure whether that would be something people would do. 
{people already don't want to roleplay, i have a hard time seeing people paying others for good posts. I don't think this really would be used because people already are constantly 'broke' or 'short on cash'.}
I would see this as a good addition or condition to the other BD perk threads that are going around. I don't see this as something that could stand on it's own.
{player x writes a post, you need 50k worth of 'upvotes' or whatever you want to call it to get your perk. But at the same time I don't see what would make people want to spend these sums on this. I would maybe go for a smaller range or maybe an entry value.}

I like this in theory... But who's to say people will or won't "praise" it because someone is their friend or someone they don't like?

I would send cash to anyone liked or not liked if they made a good post. Although I would probably donate more if they were someone I liked.

I think this would have to be put into action to test it out and see if it works.

What's stopping the poster from transferring 5,000,000 to a friend to praise his post with it?

I like this system, provided the *only* benefit they got was the money from the people that like their post.

If people are rewarded for the amount they get, it will only lead to abusing of that for people to get an easy perk.

I also would prefer if the amount of times someone has been paid and the amount was to be invisible to everyone. The only way of knowing should be if you are the poster, and you receive money for it.

I love this.  Whitey, I would give use it.  Many times I have wanted to praise people who hae posted certain things, but politics have kept me from being able to do so in any sort of public fashion.  Im not saying I will give anyone millions for a post, but 10k or something, im completely for it. 

also, why is all this stuff being redacted again?

{It really is fun, and you are quite evil. Love it.}

I guess you're right about being able to see the incentive. With that being said, would it be possible to make it so that the person receiving the payment doesn't know who it's from? I just feel that sometimes people will make comments that the people liking it don't want others to know that they do. Kind of like being able to send an anonymous mail saying that they really liked the comment, but can't show it publicly for fear of retribution.

I agree with DeadlySin on this one, I think that the money you get from a praise should be just that...the money someone gets from a praise is enough.

This is a long shot idea but think about it... How about if for threads the user submitting the thread could charge people to view it. I'm not talking big amounts but something along the lines of 5k,10k limit. So if you want; to read a city newspaper you would have to pay some cash to view it; enter a bar or nightclub you would have to pay to enter.

I think that if that was incorporated into it that would make people want to create their own threads and it would make the other users curious. I just mean the option to do it, not that every thread has to be paid to view.

That along with user rewards for your effort would certaintly bring some users out of the woodwork to gain that little bit of cash, every small amount counts.

Also if people liked that idea, I would reccomend the user having to reach a certain criteria before they were allowed to charge for threads. Possibley having to reach a certain amount of Threads/Posts first or do it by rank.

Charging people to view threads would only discourage people from visiting... exactly the opposite of what we want ;)

Sorry but I have to disagree with theory entirely. I beleive that the object or rather the theory of objectivity of opinion should be free of any cost or limitation and the fact that someone might agree or dis-agree with it is of equal importance.  

Whether the opinion is long (winded) or not does not necassarily decrease the value of that persons opinion.  There will always be people that will take advantage of the way a system is set up to run.  

This is just my opinion!