Also sadly, it seems that the original goal of paying for open source development is falling to the wayside as well, as the value of shares plummets. I was thinking about trying for the forum bounty (still might when I'm done with finals), but at this point, 12 shares for all that work seems like nothing compared to the hundreds of shares people are getting for writing.
I have totally the same feeling! I've been busy recently and planned to hold some of my developing activities on till mid-June, such as adding bitcointalk feature of the devcoin faucet, and a btc-dvc-accepting gamble site, and probably a new exchange, etc. but when I back, I checked the shares for round 24 and found there's nearly a thousand, good, I thought, we have more new developers... but holy shit, most of them are writers for devtome! Does we devcoin is DEVcoin but not WRITEcoin ? could we have more sane way to promote devtome and not destroy the developer community? I feel despire, 'cause no matter how hard of my work, I just get 2 or 6 or 12 shares, from those develop work, but those writers could easily write 12000 word at 2 or 3 nights and get the same.
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Because of share inflation, I suggest doubling all bounties which have not been awarded even in part, administration, and maintenance. Also anyone on the bitcoin share list or devcoin share list would get double marketing earnings to reward popular projects. Finally the administration cap would be increased to 9% from 7%, because the current and future administrators found cases of undeserved devtome earnings which in total saved more money than the administrators received. Any objections, or should something be changed?
Also, I'm adding six million of my coins to the coinzen bounty, and two million to Emfox's bitcointalk faucet upgrade.
Because the devcoin value is low, I removed the offer of help for new businesses from the devcoin introduction:
http://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=devcoin#devcoin_official_siteBusiness help will be added back if the devcoin value goes over 0.3$/KDVC.
Even with these changes, writers will still get most of the devcoins. The software developers make devcoin and related projects, however devtome makes the potential revenue, which will boost the value of each devcoin. It's like in a game of civilization where you make trade routes, which boosts revenue, which enables you to pay for research.