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Huh...that actually would be really handy. Problems: -How would you deal with people who aren't 'in the know' enough to earn back points? -How would you prev

Huh...that actually would be really handy. Problems: -How would you deal with people who aren't 'in the know' enough to earn back points? -How would you prevent them just creating a new account to get more points? -Chicken and Egg Problem: It's not reasonable to hire enough people to pre-verify that a post is correct in saying 'Event XYZ has just occurred'. The best solution, to my mind, is to allow the receiver ('wants-to-know person') to verify. How do you prevent people from 'griefing' by repeatedly saying a major event has just occurred, thus SMS spamming a bunch of people who want to know, say, when Spore is released? You could wait for multiple people to say something just happened, but then you create a sort of latency, especially for less-heavily-watched items, and you totally blow the chance to get inside scoops. -Define 'timely manner'. And do you get points even if you're not the first to say that an event has occurred? Your idea would be viable in terms of income, though, I would think. Charge software companies to become members, and then create a few never-expiring general-purpose event types for 'exploit found', 'POC posted', 'Code Stolen', etc., while giving them, say, a 3-day advance before anybody else watching those things or similar ones gets notified.

tocomment 19y ago
Excellent feedback points, thanks! -How would you deal with people who aren't 'in the know' enough to earn back points? Maybe there could also be a way to buy points? I'm not sure if that would be demotivating or not though. Alternativly I would think some of the tasks require nothing more than going to a website and determining if something has happened, e.g., new homestarrunner cartooon. -How would you prevent them just creating a new account to get more points? Maybe only allow one account per email address / sms address? -Chicken and Egg Problem ... How about this, if you correctly report when an event has happened you get X points (perhaps related to the number of people subscribed to the event) But if you get reported as inaccurate, you lose points. -Define 'timely manner'. And do you get points even if you're not the first to say that an event has occurred? How about we accept as many reports of as event happening as people submit. The first person gets the points, but if the first person is found to be inaccurate, then the second person gets them, and so on down the list? -monetizing ideas: I like your charging for delayed updates for bugs idea. Other options could be to sell points, or perhaps have a premium account that gets a short head start. Also product release notifications could make heavy use of affilite income.
palish 19y ago
If people submit events which other people vote up or down then "x has happened" simply becomes "x has 10 votes".
- tocomment 19y ago
  So it's like the probability that x has happened? That's an interesting way to to do it.

tocomment 19y ago

Excellent feedback points, thanks! -How would you deal with people who aren't 'in the know' enough to earn back points? Maybe there could also be a way to buy points? I'm not sure if that would be demotivating or not though. Alternativly I would think some of the tasks require nothing more than going to a website and determining if something has happened, e.g., new homestarrunner cartooon. -How would you prevent them just creating a new account to get more points? Maybe only allow one account per email address / sms address? -Chicken and Egg Problem ... How about this, if you correctly report when an event has happened you get X points (perhaps related to the number of people subscribed to the event) But if you get reported as inaccurate, you lose points. -Define 'timely manner'. And do you get points even if you're not the first to say that an event has occurred? How about we accept as many reports of as event happening as people submit. The first person gets the points, but if the first person is found to be inaccurate, then the second person gets them, and so on down the list? -monetizing ideas: I like your charging for delayed updates for bugs idea. Other options could be to sell points, or perhaps have a premium account that gets a short head start. Also product release notifications could make heavy use of affilite income.

palish 19y ago

If people submit events which other people vote up or down then "x has happened" simply becomes "x has 10 votes".

tocomment 19y ago
So it's like the probability that x has happened? That's an interesting way to to do it.