@hotarugrey one thing I was thinking about the post "likes"... Does it really make sense to have likes have daily diminishing returns? Typically if a post receives a whole bunch of likes (which will be replaced by weighted upvote/downvote system in near future), it's most likely going to happen within a few days (or on the same day) that the post is created. You wont usually consistently receive likes every day to make it worth while. Maybe a compromise would be to only count likes on posts that are less than 2 weeks old or something? That way you could not have people going through a users entire post history farming points for them or something. Also with the upcoming weighted upvote system, it should make it very difficult for new and low level users to earn anything by exchanging likes/upvotes. The whole idea of rewarding points for receiving likes etc. is to encourage people to create quality posts over spam and small talk (a good post will receive more likes, in theory).
As for the points for page views... maybe keep the diminishing returns, but bump it up to 2 points per view? Diminishing returns is pretty aggressive anyway, so the first view of the day would be 2 points, second 1 point, third 0.5 points, fourth 0.25 and so on. Or actually, 5 points might be better. With the setting at 5 points, you could view 10 pages a day and get a bit over 10 points (which is actually a little bit better then what you get currently), but after that 10 pages it drops off pretty fast.
@yanuarwisnu
I see a lot of users in the Proof of Participation Week 18 Oct 25th - Oct 31st only multiply the number of Page Views. And I'm sure users will make more accounts just to increase the Page View. So I propose to tighten the new account creation .But all the decisions in your hands and you are entitled to decide.
Yes, that appears to be what some people are doing.
@cherapple
It takes more effort to contribute valuable comments, but there's no way for the system to distinguish between valuable and not, except by upvotes and downvotes. Does the system take those into account?
You mean the upvote/downvote buttons on the blog article comments? I think it was briefly discussed before but didnt end up getting implemented. It should be though, so I will add that to the list.
A forum post should be worth more than an article comment. Giving ten points to comments increases the motivation for one-word, spam comments.
Interesting. You are probably right. Maybe 5 points for article comments..?
Can you put a cap on the number of page views an account is allowed to earn
See one of my above comments. With changing it to 5 points per page view and diminishing returns, you could effectively only get a max of around 10 to 15 points per day just from viewing pages
Ban anonymous accounts? If people want to be here, and they want to participate, then part of participation should include an identity of some kind, even pseudonymous. It could be argued that people with anonymous accounts aren't really here, and aren't really participating. Part of earning LTBcoin could be that you have to have an identity, with a positive reputation tied to it. Anonymous accounts do not get tokens. Accounts associated with extreme behavior -- like 3,000 page views in a week -- get banned. I know that's a fine line to walk, but some behaviors are obviously unacceptable. Robotic, gaming behaviors don't get rewarded.
There isnt really any "anonymous" accounts actually, we just give people the ability to set their profile to private, which pretty much only hides their username on the stats (as an admin, I can find out whos who anyway, no problem). Which I think is fair.. some people do not like the idea of other people being able to see their exact stats and how much LTBcoin they are getting. Any obvious bots should definitely be banned, but I think for the most part we just need to align the incentives correctly to get the behaviours we want. Can that be called social engineering? :)
@jsea
Would it be possible to have Magic words in articles ?
Any article can technically have a magic word associated with it, but currently we are only doing this with podcasts and not the purely written content.
