We need some more fun things to do around here, especially at these prices.
and especially now that we have a cool service that can take care of the liquidation of rewards: @commentrewarder (although it's still running into some liquidity issues due to heavy usage I see xD)
I've yet to locate the key to this community :( so I can't change the community preference to make posts automatically send 90% of rewards to @commentrewarder, but maybe this can be done manually as a start and to check if there's enough interest to use the community.
Here's however some ways I could see it working!
The Fun version
Author shares a fun picture with us of something they believe could be a good model to photoshop/edit in various ways. They forfeit 90% of the rewards to @commentrewarder. Then based on the entries, they'd be in charge of rewarding the entries based on which ones they liked the most or which ones the community liked the most if they wanna wait for votes/replies to come in towards the entries.
Here's some examples to give you an idea of how this would work from previous posts and entries:
In one post I used this as the stock image:
and these were some of the entries in the comments, that shared the author rewards of the post:
by @sachingeorge
by @albuslucimus
and some more inside joke ones by @nonameslefttouse:
Either way, the idea is to have fun with it, be creative and some skills with editing may help but shouldn't take long to learn, some times the idea may be so good it outdoes any lack in skills one may have!
The more serious version
Then we may also have more serious requests where an author could offer their author rewards or additional tips based on requests of photoshopping efforts.
These could for instance be old photo's they'd like refurbished or fixed. Maybe they'd want a certain random person in the background of an epic shot removed, etc.
Here it'd similarly work with curation and directing @commentrewarder tips to where effort and the wanted end results were generated.
The community may require some moderation, for one to make sure people are forfeiting most of the rewards to @commentrewarder but also to make sure they're not just giving them to friends or alt accounts even with better entries available, etc. It could also use some curation if the presented stock models deem worthy of being edited by the moderators/curators to encourage more peoeple to get involved.
Anyway, I think it'd be quite a solid idea, not to mention it could kill two big outside communities with one stone (/r/photoshopbattles and /r/photoshoprequests), where participants mostly just participate for useless karma points or a quick buck by the requester while 99% of other users in the comment section go empty-handed. Hive could change that.
Thoughts?