Imagine that Substack subscribers could pick teams. Maybe a team of 3, a team of 5, or a team of 7.
Fantasy Intellectual teams would centrally score substack essays using criteria along the lines of version 2.0.
In addition to the reports I have coded so far, there would be a Leaderboard of the leading substack writers in each category.
Every month, substack would award prizes to subscribers who pick the best teams. The contests could generate more subscribers for substack in addition to achieving the FITs goal.
I like trying to figure out how to make this concept both sustainable and scalable. I worry about tying the scoring too much to a single platform. We have yet to see a platform successfully thwart SJW capture.
This might be a good idea, especially for substack or if the FITs folk, meaning you, Arnold, had a partnership with substack.
Even without that, we could do a LOT with just the free articles of those writing on substack. We could, for example, put out a Substack Daily, possibly even AI edited for personalization, but to start with having our FIT chosen intellectual players all included:
Where is the list of our substack folk? I have 3 on my team:
https://glennloury.substack.com/
https://bariweiss.substack.com/
https://roddreher.substack.com/
I also get some free info from others:
https://johnmcwhorter.substack.com/
https://graymirror.substack.com/
https://www.slowboring.com/ (Matt Y)
https://sunilsuri.substack.com/
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Substack uses the Freemium model: Some free, some premium paid.
Matt Yglesias puts out both, so I get his free stuff.
Not all allow free; not all require pay — but the minimum for paid is $5/month.
All the FIT owners could be putting all the free stuff from their intellectuals into some FIT place, and an on-line newspaper could be created from that. If we want to partner with substack, we should be using their free stuff, first.
I certainly want to partner with substack.