It's roughly like the case of eos with wombat (wombat allows free eos address creation)? And about the USDC, one question that crossed my mind when reading this was the "trading fee". As withdraw-er basically trade their ANSR to USDC (though backended), will they receive the USDC in full amount or will there be a tx fee for converting them?
And sorry about the confusion, I was not referring to your... website (?) or other media of yours, I was referring to my posting format. I forgot to delete one bbcode when I snipped our conversation, resulting a rather untidy looks because my post were mixed up with the quoted post.
Stellar wallet creation isn't free. You need to activate the wallet by deposition 1 XLM. In addition the wallet creators also need to issue trustlines for another 0.5 XLM. So, this alone is enough to stop any sort of spam up to some extent. Then comes the SMS verification that would eliminate those who somehow managed to bypass the first hurdle. Then we have Lobstr that would look out for any further spam. Oh btw, we're just assuming that the user found some trick (that we're or will always be unaware of) that would allow him to have multiple accounts without spending any more than $10 (or else, he would have bought the Pro-membership).
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Auto-trade fees? ANSR -> USDC Nope! All trades will be executed on Stellar dex. It's feeless. They even refund back the transaction fee. Like I mentioned before, so far we've spent a little more than 2 years on this project and we've calculated everything very carefully. When we started building, this platform was supposed to use the Ethereum blockchain but after planning everything according to our requirements, Stellar seemed to be the best option.
Everything that I'm discussing here is already mentioned in our Whitepaper or our Blog.
Leaving the issue of cheaters and their tricks for a while and focusing on topic about wallet (and its creation fee) How possible/far-fetched is it to develop a payment method where users can auto-convert their ANSR to XLM (instead of USDC) upon withdrawal and withdrawing them directly to an XLM exchange address (that is free)?
Although I think user wouldn't mind throwing 1 XLM and create an XLM wallet for the sake of future use of every XLM token, but let's assume there's someone that didn't want to spent even one penny if they can, it seems this withdrawal method (if possible) will entice them.
Last big challenge, the user still needs to post original and HQ answers on all accounts (or there's no use of having multiple accounts). If he's trying to post copied or low-effort content, it will never get selected as the "best answer" because we've built developed smart algorithms to combat that.
I would suggest a "report" button next to every question or answer like the one this forum have, that'll notify the moderator or admin about some wrongdoings. I think it'll have added benefits other than fighting unoriginal and low quality q/a, like misplaced answer (NSFW content on SFW section), or deliberate misleading answers.
I'm not sure if this is your usual way of questioning, but it seems like you feel challenged (please excuse me if I misunderstood) to somehow degrade our efforts. We're not here for an ICO or IEO, nor we have any sort of plans to go that route. Answerly is fully self-funded to this point and will remain that way. If you think that Answerly is worth trying or checking out, you're welcome.
What? Oh LOL, no. I literally smiled when I typed this due to the irony. Granted, if you check my post history, I usually asked and criticized questionable projects, like ones without clear team, or shady background, or last-minute webpage and social media, but I checked yours and actually find myself quite satisfied, even interested. Hence, the questions, which ironically seen as doubts and scepticism, while other projects that I find myself sceptic about seems rarely confronted me about my horde of questions.
