Is it possible to be compensated to onboard new ICP users?
Like a referral program, where a website that onboards any new ICP user that obtains their ICP ID through a particular link gets compensated via tokens?
Yes, you can be compensated for onboarding new users, by staking tokens in the nns. As overtime, increased adoption of this technology will be beneficial to long term holders.
The reason this isn’t a good idea is because people could abuse it, by using the link themselves to keep generating IDs.
I apologize if anything I said came off as snarky, that’s not my intention.
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People still don’t understand “web3” at a fundamental level.
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Yes, but we should try to spread the message. In good faith.
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If you want to pay people tokens to referral people to onboard you can galvanize people to create a protocol to do that. You can pay ICP. You can invent a 
coin and pay people that. You can write a proposal to use NF to do that.
Your best bet is find like minded people that wish to market or wish to allocate resources to marketing.
Although I’m against marketing as web3 principals is all the marketing you need, I’ll admit “marketing products” have more product market fit than your usual “try hard real world utility grift”. Entertainment, gaming, ads/marketing.
So, I doubt you’ll get the votes to somehow embed “marketing dynamics” directly into the protocol your next option is to refresh thr meaning of “web3” galvanize likeminded people to take matters into their own hands and use blockchain tech to “market”.
Dfinity isn’t gonna market. I’m not gonna market. We don’t need to onboard “jeets” and force hockey sticks with massive speculation.
Although if I were to decide, I would market/educate in the gaming sector and trad sofware devs. Educate people to stop developing in walled gardens and focus on building a new garden that may be less walled. Really hard task for a few reasons which I hypothesis that people are naturally sheep. They follow the crowd and developing for traditional tech, even though it’s pretty saturated to be able to find any true value to give people when lots of low hanging fruit exists for builders to add value in the blockchain space. The other issue I see is people argue that “aligned eco stakeholdership” that web3 touts is no different to traditional models.
Marketing efforts around reeducating web3 principals that we’ve learned in the past to the next cohort and possibly getting it to finally click for those that already heard the “web3 buzz” in the past but weren’t sold.
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There have been multiple projects, since launch, which have done referral programs. However, history has shown that people only stay to get the token, then completely ditch the application. So why pay to get the sparse, forced feedback from people who have to be incentivized; when the people who freely use it, are the ones who provide the feedback which is actually valuable?
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