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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 Kliment »

adriand wrote: post #95
alxndr wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, that's what I was imagining. And perhaps projects would publish any guidelines they end up going by for what commits could be worth.

Interesting idea. Here's a twist: what if the committer could set the value of their commit instead? Social pressure would dictate that most people would not overreach. Then those who make small but useful commits could recognize in advance their minor nature. This is essentially a kind of honour system.

The problem with that is it forces you to reject good commits by people who want more than you think the commit is worth.

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

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Post by JoshTriplett »

arsenische wrote: post #39
unreal37 wrote: post #15

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…

That's right. We made this project as a part of Rails Rumble contest and are using a limited-time free server offered by them. So we need to collect money to move to a new server, to cover transaction fees and to continue development of this service if it is demanded. Maybe we should remove the fees, go opensource and crowdfund ourselves. We were discussing it but haven't made such decision yet. We don't expect to ho…

By all means, please do keep taking a percentage as a sensible funding model; it doesn't seem at all unreasonable, and it ensures you'll stick around. I'd be more concerned if you didn't have any obvious revenue stream.

Alternatively, if you do make your site open (and that'd be awesome, please do), you should prominently encourage people to post tips to your repository.

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

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Post by rspeer »

arsenische wrote: post #77
nkuttler wrote: post #6

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Ah, thanks! That was nicely hidden.

replaced it with a little cat.. is it better?

That just looks like an icon to reinforce that "this is a GitHub project". It doesn't at all draw attention to the fact that clicking the icon is the main way to get to the GitHub page.

How about making the link cover the entire header ("sferik/t" and the octocat icon), or adding a "View project on GitHub" link under the description?

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

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Post by JoshTriplett »

joeyh wrote: post #63
sashazykov wrote: post #12

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

I'd like to drop $500 to $1k for git-annex into tip4commit. This is money that was donated to me in a crowdfunding campaign ( http://campaign.joeyh.name/ ) and set aside to get more people committing to git-annex than just me. Problem is this: git-annex's website and indeed its BTS are part of its git repository. So it gets lots of commits from eg "name@web". I don't want tip4commit to try to send bitcoin tips to suc…

Arguably, you might want to exclude the BTS and website from the tipping system (or give them a separate pool to draw from), if you're trying to encourage code contributions. Not that website changes aren't valuable, but it's far too easy to make a dozen commits to the website as a natural part of cleaning it up and working on it, especially given the way wikis allow live edits of only a single page at a time.

Could tip4commit support configuring a single repository to treat commits differently based on what paths they change?

As an aside, if you added a full name to ikiwiki's Preferences, couldn't you construct proper commit authors using full name and email for anyone who supplied them?

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

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Post by nkuttler »

smartwater wrote: post #92
nkuttler wrote: post #83

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It's pretty easy to track coins through transactions and link them to an IP, unless the user knows about this and takes care to prevent it.

An IP address is light-years from a real-life identity. Without a warrant, there's not a chance of figuring out even the account holders name-- which could be different from the person who actually performed the transaction. It could be a neighbor, a friend, a roommate, anyone else who ever had the wifi password, the possibilities are endless.

If anonymity is a concern getting a court order doesn't sound like a big deal. Even if not, you vastly overestimate the anonymity an IP provides, and if anonymity is a concern legal deniability isn't a big win either. You also ignore that you could potentially get dozens or hundreds of IP addresses. Anonymity, like security, is hard, and has layers.

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

#108

Post by alixaxel »

shortly wrote: post #13
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 re…

That is very neat idea!

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

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Post by [deleted] »

nkuttler wrote: post #107
smartwater wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

An IP address is light-years from a real-life identity. Without a warrant, there's not a chance of figuring out even the account holders name-- which could be different from the person who actually performed the transaction. It could be a neighbor, a friend, a roommate, anyone else who ever had the wifi password, the possibilities are endless.

If anonymity is a concern getting a court order doesn't sound like a big deal. Even if not, you vastly overestimate the anonymity an IP provides, and if anonymity is a concern legal deniability isn't a big win either. You also ignore that you could potentially get dozens or hundreds of IP addresses. Anonymity, like security, is hard, and has layers.

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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 [deleted] »

nkuttler wrote: post #107
smartwater wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

An IP address is light-years from a real-life identity. Without a warrant, there's not a chance of figuring out even the account holders name-- which could be different from the person who actually performed the transaction. It could be a neighbor, a friend, a roommate, anyone else who ever had the wifi password, the possibilities are endless.

If anonymity is a concern getting a court order doesn't sound like a big deal. Even if not, you vastly overestimate the anonymity an IP provides, and if anonymity is a concern legal deniability isn't a big win either. You also ignore that you could potentially get dozens or hundreds of IP addresses. Anonymity, like security, is hard, and has layers.

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