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Hi, these are really great ideas, thank you.

We've thought about it more in terms of volume of consumption for now but are going to look into the users' patterns to see what fits them best. We also thought about paid mobile apps, or plugins for content creators if we can prove them it drives more traffic to their content.

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I think you should first focus on building big-enough community of people who'll create high quality, non-biased, not-spammy summaries. Without it you won't have anything to monetize. Eranation's ideas were interesting (in the area of financial incentives you could experiment with Mechanical Turk, maybe GitTip, MinuteBox etc. as well as BitCoin payments). However you also should check for other, non-financial motivators for creators. I guess that many bloggers and other people trying to build their online brand would be interested in it for clicks, social shares, Whuffies, Klout score impact etc. The another option worth testing could be some kind of intelligent gamification of the process. In that case browser extension would be handy as it could provide all the necessary tools like author profile, sharing buttons and so long. Good luck - I really hope to see your button everywhere soon, as it's great idea.

Hi Arek, This is exactly what we think as well. Without an engaged community of quality contributors we won't go anywhere and this is our only priority. I love your ideas, thank you for sharing them. One problem we face with convincing bloggers is the mental barrier of them thinking that people are just going to read the tl;dr and not the whole content. We believe that the reverse is actually more likely and are starting to aggregate data to back this claim up. If you are up to discussing intelligent gamification with us, I'd be delighted to have a chat with you. Contact me on twitter @stanmarion or by email stan@<tldr>io Thanks for the kind words

Gamification, if done right, can be more powerful than money, HN, SO, are a little addictive, we all know that... but not sure how it is translated to money. Qell, if money was everything, not sure if we had Wikipedia, right?

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