Quote from: emfox
I've no aggression to the writers, but just want to make our community to notice this thing, is devtome more important than open source developers? I'd suggest some way, e.g. to limit the shares on devtome not exceed the half of whole shares, or as others said, use read times or vote links, instead of just words to distribute shares. just some random thoughts, not thinking very carefully, and forgive my english for I'm not native speaker.
I agree 100%. Unthinkingbit and other administrators: is there a way we can make some decision on this?
Devcoin is about DEVeloping, maintaining a wiki dosnt really count to developing
Without awareness and POPularity all the DEVeloping in the world will fall flat on its face.
Writers should get paid per quality and the best way is to measure quality the way advertisers and google pay and get paid for ads and that is hits or page-views.
I know unthinkingbit said last month there was a program almost ready to be used for this. This will ensure that people will write quality work or quit. It is the most fair way of doing things.
Going based on hits/views is one of the easiest systems to manipulate (exploit). I am 100% against this.
How is that? I mean, isn't this how google gets paid? Are advertisers that dumb? I presumed if it was good enough for google and billion dollar advertisers it would be good enough for devtome and devcoin. Or is there something in addition which google employs to ensure there's no manipulation?
Anybody know how google does it to keep it fair and keep bots out? TIA.
They judge from a mix of referrals (eg they can see if a page was referred from a link in the search engines or a link from another site such as facebook, reddit or a forum - bots don't show referrals as no cookie drops) and whether a browser was used, plus they know the ips of most of the bots (they've had to learn to stop their Adsense advertisers getting exploited) and automatically exclude them. That's why if you install Google analytics, the number of hits shown is way less (as in about just 10%) of the hits shown in your cpanel. That's because your cpanel is logging everything, bots and all, and Google Analytics is excluding bots.
One solution: just install Adsense on Devtome - that way Google decides the impressions and clicks, based on their vast experience, they'll pay in fiat, which can be used to buy Devcoins to distribute, which should help keep the price stable.