Quote from: markm on December 23, 2013, 06:42:39 AM

Quote from: giftculturewriting on December 23, 2013, 06:09:02 AM

Is it one share per ten hours?

Quote from: markm on December 23, 2013, 04:51:44 AM

In fact it seems to me that ideally we should at some point no longer need to pay authors by the word, because, hopefully, we will eventually be able to do authors the same way we do any other developers of free open source software, which is to say, if we find a good author who habitually as a lifestyle spends ten hours per week creating free open source stuff they should be able to get onto the receivers list as a developer of free open source stuff.

Notice that they get the same one share regardless of whether they only spend the absolute minimum - ten hours per week - working on such stuff or they do such stuff 40 hours a week or 60 hours a week or 80 hours a week or whatever.

The idea was we are looking for those people who already naturally as a lifestyle contribute their time freely to free open source development.

Did you read the above paragraph of mine that you quoted?

As it answers the question you posted above it.

It sounded so low I wanted to clarify and make sure you weren't describing something hypothetical (like in earlier parts of the discussion). Maybe I should have written... IS it just ONE share per TEN hours? Huh

...And it would have been clearer. Tongue

EDIT: Forgot to add, part of the reason this surprised me so much was that I just got a one share bounty for writing a short review of a devcoin wallet installer.

Quote from: markm on December 23, 2013, 06:42:39 AM

The thing is though, why would you settle for only one share for all those hours instead of getting one share per 1000 words?

Well one reason, I suppose would be if you didn't want to post the material to Devtome.

But basically the crazy-high pay currently going to Devtome authors kind of discourages anyone from going for the lifestyle author of free open source software option, not to mention the vast number of shares that go to Devtome authors grossly dilutes the actual value that a lifestyle author's lonely single share would actually be worth on the exchanges.

I'd say it definitely encourages lifestyle authors of written material at this point. It might also encourage people who are not using it in the spirit it was intended. But if it went to the lifestyle developer=certain number of shares, you'd probably have to have the dedicated pool of developers *first*, transition the program, then there'd be a lot fewer shares that would be worth more. You'd also theoretically be able to up the number of shares given to lifestyle developers for their work (for instance if that section in a receiver file looked like devtome earnings currently does)