I think the things you brought up are separate projects from Devtome. The hard part is how you reward for things like the art and music. How are they evaluated? How do you determine what one is worth compared to the others? Devtome brings in advertising revenue, which gives a direct valuation to content. The others don't do that.
Don't do that yet. Why shouldn't "they" be able to do that.
Well, how do you determine what a devtome text is worth compared to others? It's not a very brilliant solution there too. Wordcount is not a measure of quality. We would need some kind of voting system, etc etc.
But that's why I love devcoin so much.
It has opened an infinite amount of possibilites with no real solutions YET.
But this might change. That's the main reason I buy devcoin.
I like what this coin / community wants to be... I don't care that they have not yet achieved their goal.
The word count is only around 60% of the value. The rest is generated through ratings and popularity (which equates to advertising revenue). So really, we are already progressing further in terms of determining what it's worth.
I do feel that we need some more stringent rules on the shares, but the problem is that would require a more centralized group of people to handle evaluating text and such. I, for example, believe that a high-quality writer should be paid more than a low-quality one. The question the comes from where quality is derived from. As of right now that's based on popularity and ratings.
