Quote from: 1oojke on September 24, 2017, 10:24:15 PM

Quote from: bible_pay on September 24, 2017, 06:46:58 PM

Quote from: 616westwarmoth on September 24, 2017, 06:38:19 PM

I've got plenty of BBP on the Testnet. I'll start working on a few things in the next couple days. One issue to consider on new is copyright. So for now, I would suggest self contained help articles and the like should be the goal, with a bit of time to determine what exactly "fair use" can be held. Also, since the block chain is immutable, some sort of vetting will be critical.

Sorry to be so quiet the last few days, been a rough week here.

Yeah, go ahead and find out how copyright will work, Im sure there must be a way to legally create news articles that are picked up by multiple stations. For one we would encourage paraphrasing and original non copyrighted images.

As far as immutable, we will eventually have upvote/downvote, and we charge a fee for publishing. If it ever becomes a problem we could potentially make an escrow requirement, and "spend" the escrow if someone posts something very negative (like walls of swear words as an article).

Hi dev and comunity, reading about this upvote/downvote feature got me thinking about the letter writing to orphans. Maybe we should prioritize integrating the process of letter writing and approving in the wallet itself? Currently it is only being done in the pool, and I think that people just never go to that section and are not even aware of this feature.
I am new to the project, so I haven't went through the code, but maybe writing letters could be implemented as a special kind of "news article" that will also go in the block chain and be voted on in the wallet itself (and then automatically sent if approved).

Even thou i like the new news article feature, frankly I think that we are kind of behind with the letter writing to the orphans we sponsor and we should probably think about how to make it easier for an average user to do it. Here, I am just giving and idea how we may reuse this new feature for this purpose. After all we are a charitable community in the first place.

All the best to fellow biblers.

Thanks for the ideas! But the letters to the orphans dont belong in the chain, as they are temporary and potentially private in the future, and changing in format after sanctuaries go live, and require specific API integration to deliver, and require dynamic booleans depending on when they are sent to compassion, etc.

However the news is permanent and useful to be part of the chain.

(In addition, it takes hundreds of hours to code a feature in the QT wallet, as compared to tens of hours on the web site, so we have to architect each IT solution with respect to how many resources will be consumed vs the ROI).