# Boosting: a prediction market on ideas

**URL:** https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/boosting-a-prediction-market-on-ideas/306
**Category:** Getting Started
**Created:** [October 21, 2019, 2:08am UTC](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/boosting-a-prediction-market-on-ideas/306 "2019-10-21T02:08:37Z")
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### Author: ![burrrata](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/discourse.sourcecred.io/burrrata/32/135_2.png) [@burrrata](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/u/burrrata)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2020, 2:55am UTC](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/boosting-a-prediction-market-on-ideas/306/12 "2020-01-09T02:55:25Z")

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Dumping this here as a reference point to be explored, discussed, and maybe incorporated into Boosting sometime in the future:

> [@Likes: altruism =\> mini-boosting](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/likes-altruism-mini-boosting/517):
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> Nodes are more valuable if they don’t flow their Cred out. For user nodes this means that people who don’t like or link to other people’s posts will get rewarded for being stingy with their Cred. In fact, there’s no direct incentive to like/link things at all. This seems like a bug. Currently, we all share likes/links because we’re in a high trust level, but will not scale. There should be a game theoretically strong reason to share the love. With [Boosting](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/boosting-a-prediction-market-on-ideas/306), when you boost a something you get a…

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