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 throw money at it.
Our best approach to measuring article usefulness would probably be to use a major huge big money advertising network such as Google AdSense so that they do the worrying about whether the views are kae or not and we just get paid by them and get stats per page from them telling how much money each page made. Then we don't care about visits or article quality we just get money we can then divvy up. (Not all of it going to the author of the page, since putting that page somewhere else it would not benefit from all the cross-links from all the devtome articles wikilinking to it, all the pagerank of the devtome and so on. Also not in fiat of course; the fiat would be used to buy devcoins on an exchange and some fraction of those devcoins would go out to the authors of the pages proportionately to how much of the advertising earnings was from that page.)
The expense of policing visits and clicks is a huge thing, all the puny little alternate advertising networks people keep creating are basically free money for clickfraud practitioners once they have been thrown out of AdSense or given up trying to make yet another sockpuppet adsense account to try again with. Good luck making a devcoin powered advertisign netowrk that works, bitcoin has some and they don't work yet, i doubt a devcoin one will really be any better.
-MarkM-