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So it's not free to camp, we'll end up with centralised mega hosters (seedboxes in the tracker analogy) and in practice travelers will be too small time to actually be able earn any credits


Its also ripe for abuse; create dummy accounts that use their free stays to give a host credit, then the host sells those credits for real money.

On a certain movie tracker some invite selling scum would join via the signup process that used to exist on reddit, cheat a bunch of upload on popular torrents, convert that upload into bonus points, launder the points to their main account through a forum contest where they also gave away BP to innocent users, and buy invites to sell for real $ with the laundered BP. Similarly the dummy camping accounts could make sure to mix in some legit hosts as their free stays by picking hosts that may not be around/able to verify the dummy account stayed at their location (because it didn't).


I enjoy the irony of complaining about people breaking the rules on a pirate movie tracker.


It's different kinds of rules, you cannot easily compare them. Similarly to how the paradox of tolerance falls apart if you consider tolerance a social contract: https://cdn.rheinneckar.social/media_attachments/files/110/6...


pirate movie trackers are notoriously strict about people breaking their rules.


The paradox of piracy?


Isn't it beautiful, how new wave of couchsurfing scales into airbnb without having to become a new entity along the way?


Agreed, I don’t like this at all. And everyone’s always giving something only just to get something. And it Hass to be monetize and quantized and socialized. Gross.




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