Quote from: BlackHatCoiner on Today at 03:59:49 PM

Quote from: Royse777 on Today at 03:11:00 PM

- Would you like to have $250 or $200 per week?

That sounds rhetorical. What requirements and payrate per post will each have?

I am assuming it'll be around what Mixero looks like, with merit rank being introduced and used; basically the normal rate per rank will be lower than it is right now, but once someone reached certain merit treshold [3000+ for mixero] they'll earn special rate, that'll allow them to reach 200-250$ per week].

Quote from: cryptofrka on Today at 04:44:45 PM

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I personally feel that merits are more of a 'persistence' thing, and are also easy to farm. You can go to the WO board and get 10 merits daily by posting memes and selling hopium, whereas you can write 20 quality posts in gambling without receiving any.

I'm not against merit ranks per se, I'm just saying that the distribution is skewed - and that merits alone are often not the best representation of a user's posting quality. I hope that we won't have huge oscillations in payments with merits as the sole evaluating criteria.

I don't think I can describe what I have in my mind better than this. As someone who never, not even once, touched or peeked the WO board [hell, I don't even know what that board is about and what's being discussed there, but its nefarious reputation for merit farming resonates to the board I usually roamed around], I hope that merit factors won't... affect the rate way too much. Or if it has to, perhaps we see which board the merits come from to see if the merit counts are really due to the quality of the posts produced or is it due to the user usually posts on board that notoriously generous on distributing merit for little to no effort.

As cryptofrka said, different boards entitle users to different merit generosity, thus the distribution is a bit... skewed.

Quote from: Royse777 on Today at 03:11:00 PM

Two parallel questions to get community feedback.
- Maximum 50 posts per week is good enough or 40 per week is better?
- Would you like to have $250 or $200 per week?

If I may be honest, 40 or 50 seems impossible for me as I barely even managed 25 weekly, so the number doesn't mean much to me as I don't think I am interested to reach 40, let alone 50.

Basically, the logical principle applied here will be, "the more posts people made, the more immersive Sinbad's brand awareness is." But it'll also encourage a bad impression if many were merely chasing weekly maximum quota and lowered their standard. So if I may propose, perhaps we go with 40 per week for several weeks, see how this new structure works and if it encourages spam or not, and if it doesn't, then we go with 50?

And thus, naturally, we first go with 200$ for 40 posts, and if we can control the spam possibility, we raise the bar to 50 posts and the limit will raise to 250$? [this is assuming that I assume correctly the new payment structure you'll use]