This one is one of my dumbest mistakes, which is both disappointing and amazing: disappointing because its stupidity is borderline embarrassing, but amazing because the most valuable lessons come from the dumbest mistakes.

With ActoGuitar I had tried incentivizing user contribution by paying people to contribute content that conformed to a pre-determined standard that would be of value to the community. There are a lot of flaws with this, but the biggest one is that most people are not motivated by money. There needs to be an ego or reputation incentive.

I am definitely committed to creating an economy within the community -- and this will mean incentivizing contribution in a monetary fashion in some way -- but it needs to be structured properly. I will continue to experiment to see what works. For now, I at least know one way that won't work.

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