Power of voting

On traditional Web 2.0 meme platforms, voting is a sort of frivolous activity. Votes are free and unlimited, users are encouraged to vote as much as much as they like. In effect, voting loses its weight and meaning, there’s really no deliberation on whether the meme is actually worthy of rewarding its creator, or not.

With Openmeme, we shift this paradigm completely. Users who want to engage need to own tokens, and spend them each time they vote. This means that each vote literally has a monetary value that they choose to reward the creator with.

Because of this, the users become the critics and appraisers of memes. With their votes, they literally determine the meme’s value and can make the meme creator a superstar, or let them fade into obscurity.