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Re: Show HN: Bitcoin voting on CoinSmack news site.

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Post by SkyMarshal »

RobertKohr wrote: post #11
franciscoapinto wrote: post #4

I see this more as a feature on an already established link sharing site such as hacker news or reddit than as a standalone website. Good concept, though. Please prove me wrong. EDIT: Also, I dislike the design. It's not very pretty. I'm not much of a designer myself, else I'd try to help you with it.

I am far from a designer myself, and no designer was involved in creating this (it was really just a weekend project). I don't see how it is just a feature. It is fundamentally different regarding what makes up a vote, and how things get popular.

Try Twitter Bootstrap, it's perfect for circumstances like this.

http://www.markdotto.com/2012/01/24/bootstrap-2-ready-for-te...

Here's another bitcoin site made with bootstrap, fwiw:

http://bitcoinica.com/

Re: Show HN: Bitcoin voting on CoinSmack news site.

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Post by fragsworth »

RobertKohr wrote: post #15
feral wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting. Hard to think what it would be like if it got traction, though; you don't have a reliable way of telling if a single user has voted multiple times - so anyone with enough bitcoins could buy the front page, right? To keep advertisements/spam away, users would have to be willing to outspend spammers - is that really going to work? Surely, at that point, its just an advertising space, like a billboard, rath…

There is a decay effect on the home page (the "hot" section) where posts will fall off as they get older. The current calculation is bitcoins/sqrt(time) The spammer is still just a single person, and if no one is sending coins to lets say his "viagra" post, then even if he has an advantage, it only takes a few people to like something else to outgun him. How many people vote up something on the home page of reddit. I…

Have you considered letting users also spend bitcoins to downvote posts, but at a high ratio (e.g. remove 10 by spending 1)? That could clear up the advertising.

What to do with the leftover bitcoins? Maybe hold on to them.

Re: Show HN: Bitcoin voting on CoinSmack news site.

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Post by RobertKohr »

fragsworth wrote: post #22
RobertKohr wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a decay effect on the home page (the "hot" section) where posts will fall off as they get older. The current calculation is bitcoins/sqrt(time) The spammer is still just a single person, and if no one is sending coins to lets say his "viagra" post, then even if he has an advantage, it only takes a few people to like something else to outgun him. How many people vote up something on the home page of reddit. I…

Have you considered letting users also spend bitcoins to downvote posts, but at a high ratio (e.g. remove 10 by spending 1)? That could clear up the advertising. What to do with the leftover bitcoins? Maybe hold on to them.

I had code in there to do just that (at a 2x ratio) but commented it out before launch.

I am going optimism that it will not just turn into an ad site. If I end up wrong, then I will do something like this.

So far it seems to be a site where people that love dinosaurs come. Go figure.

Re: Show HN: Bitcoin voting on CoinSmack news site.

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Post by muyuu »

Interesting, but I think you need to allow tags or at least "categories" - otherwise it will have too much noise for just about everyone. Obviously a redesign would help but this can be done further down the road.

I'd definitely participate if I could see some traction or be allowed to create a "community" on something concrete I'm interested about. I think tags+categories are the way to go.

Re: Show HN: Bitcoin voting on CoinSmack news site.

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Post by RobertKohr »

Something awful user did a hack on the site where they injected a close tag into the category selector, preventing other users from posting for a while.

It isn't a meaningful site until something awful hacks it.

Either way, it is fixed now and you can continue to post.

Re: Show HN: Bitcoin voting on CoinSmack news site.

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Post by sneak »

keen wrote: post #10
sneak wrote: post #5

What incentive do users have to deposit/upvote?

I think the incentive to vote is to say 'thanks' for a good submission (the votes are extremely cheap). There will be definitely be many freeloaders though, if the site's successful.

Forget freeloaders, think traction. I can't imagine why I'd send bitcoins to this site versus just using Reddit.
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