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Earn $4 in bitcoins for any commit to sferik/t, a command-line Twitter tool

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Re: Earn $4 in bitcoins for any commit to sferik/t, a command-line Twitter tool

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Post by sashazykov »

tobyjsullivan wrote: post #7

Is this operated with some sort of commit hook or done manually by the project maintainers or what? Edit: At present this is obviously an MVP that is probably being completely "faked" on the back-end, so I suppose my question should be "What is the intended design?"

No, it's not an MVP. We retrieve new commits using github API.

Re: Earn $4 in bitcoins for any commit to sferik/t, a command-line Twitter tool

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Post by shortly »

MBCook wrote: post #8

This seems like an accidental perverse incentive. While you only get the top if your commit is accepted, I would be worried the maintainers will just end up with a bunch of low effort trivial patches.

the solution is probably a moving-knife procedure[1]:

have a list of rewardable issues. grow the reward for each issue with time. once the reward makes the time spent on the project worthwhile, people will be incentivized to commit. they won't let the reward grow too high, for fear that someone else will take it.

you could let coders freeze the reward for some amount of time, and get exclusive rights to claim that reward, until the time expires.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving-knife_procedure

Re: Earn $4 in bitcoins for any commit to sferik/t, a command-line Twitter tool

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Post by sashazykov »

tobyjsullivan wrote: post #7

Is this operated with some sort of commit hook or done manually by the project maintainers or what? Edit: At present this is obviously an MVP that is probably being completely "faked" on the back-end, so I suppose my question should be "What is the intended design?"

There are a lot of proofs on bitcointalk and twitter. https://twitter.com/harrigan/status/404255665163481088 for example. The project is online for more than a month.

Re: Earn $4 in bitcoins for any commit to sferik/t, a command-line Twitter tool

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Post by unreal37 »

I assume it's not affiliated with the projects at all. This is an independently-run tip system for open source projects. Cool idea.

Key disclaimer though, is that only 95% of donations for tips go to the coders. And if every commit donates 1% of the balance to the commit, that means that the project almost never donates it's full balance. So if this ever really takes off, the original developer of tip4commit will be holding a lot of money that takes a long time to pay out.

Re: Earn $4 in bitcoins for any commit to sferik/t, a command-line Twitter tool

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Post by tobyjsullivan »

sashazykov wrote: post #12
tobyjsullivan wrote: post #7

Is this operated with some sort of commit hook or done manually by the project maintainers or what? Edit: At present this is obviously an MVP that is probably being completely "faked" on the back-end, so I suppose my question should be "What is the intended design?"

No, it's not an MVP. We retrieve new commits using github API.

Never judge a book by it's bootstrapped cover, I guess. Hah. That's cool, thanks for the info!

For the record, I thought MVP because I somehow didn't notice all the other projects and thought this was the only one.

Re: Earn $4 in bitcoins for any commit to sferik/t, a command-line Twitter tool

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Post by willbill »

nkuttler wrote: post #9
MBCook wrote: post #8

This seems like an accidental perverse incentive. While you only get the top if your commit is accepted, I would be worried the maintainers will just end up with a bunch of low effort trivial patches.

Indeed, my first thought was actually "let's see if there are any whitespace issues to fix".

I love how whitespace has turned into an "issue" and how a problem has also turned into an "issue"
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