- Pay the Producer should be called Pay the Site Owner, right?
- Pay per Like means large scale fraud, as long a Like costs less than it makes. There was a discussion about request stuffing here: Why wouldn't app developers stuff their GET requests?. Like Stuffing would be as bad, and do as little for real authors, as Request Stuffing.
So I’m undecided because no approach can reward the producer. Any of them may, but no one can guarantee it, and there is no solution (even if SAFE watched for original checksums, it’d still couldn’t guarantee the first file on SAFE belongs to the author, and even if it did, all that would require is a slight (1 pixel) change to get around it).
There being no solution, it’s only a matter of how various interest groups align. Naturally, there are more users than farmers, and more farmers than developers and other authors, so I think we all know how this is going to end.