I want to create a website that advocates progressing humanity in 'empirically beneficial' areas. The basic concept currently is to create a website with a currency (much like d2jsp fg) that is used by people interested in academia to help each other learn. People buy the currency ('fg') in order to 'pay' people who have helped them with an answer to a question. There are many separate 'forums/categories' where people post questions and general news(engineering, general science, astronomy/space advocacy, economics, political science, health/fitness, math, physics, environmental science, computer science, art, ect). I'm an advocate for progressing humanity, and by that I mean being both psysically strong/healthy, as well as mentally strong and intelligent.

The emphasis would be on the science/math related topics, but I'd want to include any sort of topic that could be improved upon/discussed to 'improve humanity' and to increase collective knowledge in general.

For example:

A novice at computer science has an issue with code on a project he is working on. He purchases 'fg' with $. He then offers 'fg' for a solution to his coding problem.

Someone then offers/posts the solution to the problem he had, and discusses it in his thread. Once a solution is met he pays the person for his contribution. Just like jsp you cannot offer what you don't have and locks/warn/bans would be similar.


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There would be an incentive to 'want' the forum gold as I would have a 'fg' store where it could be translated into real items.





I'm looking for suggestions for possible website names.

Initially I thought ProgressiveHumanity.com but decided against it due to it's alternative definition of 'liberal' values.

FG for responses I like. Also taking suggestions for the website in general.

CapitalisticSciences.com

humansingularity.com A force that brings us all together learning as 1

This post was edited by doomchaser on Sep 14 2013 01:29pm

Thanks for the response. It might have a negative connotation to it, although it is relevant to the website topic.

ISO more names



Interesting, although I think that it might be hard to tell what the website is about from the name alone. Thanks for the response!

This post was edited by Blankey on Sep 14 2013 01:30pm

its a good idea but there are a lot of free forums and other sites that provide this kind of service. if you want people to pay you will probably need dedicated helpers who have experience in tutoring and have a high level of education, and unless they are willing to volunteer for this kind of thing, you might have to pay them. but if you can provide fast, reliable answers, i think people would be willing to pay. good luck

This post was edited by khemist on Sep 14 2013 01:32pm

physicsforums.com

wow that site is eerily close to my concept.

Phyence

As someone who has frequently helped people in the homework section here, here's my two cents.

1) Why would someone buy your virtual currency to pay others instead of just paying others directly?
2) Why would someone that is helping others want to be paid in your virtual currency? Keep in mind that the only reason the fg payment method works is because it already has an immense "market" where you can buy tons of different virtual items that you can't easily get anywhere else.
3) If I did have some of your virtual currency, would I be able to exchange it back for actual money? Keep in mind that some people that help won't want to buy one of your t-shirts or other items since they can just buy anything you can offer elsewhere online.