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Yeah, but if it becomes known that that is a search signal, it effectively lets people purchase their way up the search rankings by paying other people to tip them. You'd have a much smaller pool of legit tips to overcome, because so few people pay for content, before you could become the most tipped article for any given topic.



You have just described paid advertising.





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