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Re:Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter by 0-_-0 on Thursday February 28, 2019 @05:16AM (#19270320)
If the money was donated this would just make this an alternative way to donate money to charity, the creator pocketing the money is necessary for this to be a social experiment.
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Re:Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter by kgwgk on Thursday February 28, 2019 @06:34AM (#19270624)
He could give the money to me and the “social experiment” part would be unaffected, I think. He could burn the money. Keeping it is not really out of necessity.
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Re:Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter by stfwn on Thursday February 28, 2019 @08:10AM (#19271063)
Give the money to the person who spent the most until someone overtakes them and gets the money next.
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Re:Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter by cglace on Thursday February 28, 2019 @08:36AM (#19271210)
So basically a dollar auction except the richest person always wins?
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Re:Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter by PavlovsCat on Thursday February 28, 2019 @06:25AM (#19270596)
But that just makes it an alternative to giving the creator money directly.

"How is this a plane? Is it made of wool?"

"If it was made of wool it would be a comfy hat, it not being made of wool is necessary for it to be a plane. Notice how I'm not even claiming that it's a plane."

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Re:Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter by pluma on Thursday February 28, 2019 @07:02AM (#19270732)
Neato. I'll just refer to beggars and scammers as "social experimenters" from now on then.
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