Do I get this correctly: user earned fixed token for posting questions, and others also earned some token for answering the question? So who'll buy the token?
Hey, thanks for asking.
So, here's how its supposed to work.
There are a few important factors that will come into play. We have calculated this entire system very carefully.
For asking question: The users will be rewarded 0.2 ANSR tokens *after* the "best answer" is selected on any question. For instance, someone just signs up and start adding questions on Answerly. He still won't earn anything, unless those questions are answered by other users because the best answer reward and question reward will be distributed at the same time (please check question locking section on the WP). The reward for "asking questions* is fixed (0.2 ANSR) no matter what user level your account has.
Answering reward: This reward depends upon the user's user level. Levels range from 1-5. A new user starts with User Level 1 and he will earn a reward of 1 ANSR token for every *Best answer*. Once he has at least 10 Best Answers, he can upgrade his user level to 2. In order to upgrade his user level from 2->3, the user needs to have 50 best answers etc. From Level 3->4, the user needs to have 100 best answers. Similarly, from Level 4->5 the user needs to have 1000 best answers. On average, 15-20% of answers will be selected as Best Answers (assuming that the answer is well-written and detailed). Here are the best answer rewards on each level.
Level 1: 1 ANSR token / best answer
Level 2: 2 ANSR token / best answer
Level 3: 3 ANSR token / best answer
Level 4: 4 ANSR token / best answer
Level 5: 5 ANSR token / best answer
Now, coming to the most important part -
Who will buy the token?Basically everyone, because you need to make User level upgrade payment in ANSR tokens. The user may use his earned tokens "OR" buy ANSR tokens from Stellar Dex.
So, long story short. In order to seriously scale your earnings, you need to upgrade your user level. For doing that, you need to fulfill 2 requirements:
1. Have enough "best answer" to upgrade
2. Make the payment in ANSR tokens to upgrade (assuming that you've already fulfilled the 1st requirement)
Here's another important thingNone of these tokens (that users pay for upgrading their user level) will be counted as *Revenue*. These tokens will be rolled back into the circulation.
As for Answerly's revenue - we earn by selling pro-membership packages. These packages range from $10-30 per month. These are optional but can be really helpful for further scaling your earnings and some additional perks that can be useful for promoting your business.
I highly recommend you to check out our whitepaper.
Hope this answers your query