Topic: [DVC]DevCoin - Official Thread - Moderated - page 255. (Read 1058949 times)

It is still lower than I bought it ;] But.. Devcoin is right now for long term investors, people still dont understand altcoins enought to see devcoins advantages. Right now we have crazy situation in altoins world due to too many new alts, volume is splitted very badly due to that but this will end soon. Right now is still good time to invest in Devcoin and I am 90% sure that people that do that today, will benefit after few months. Just diversify your money into DVC. It is a good call.

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Also have a read through this re. creating article page and your invoice page. If you need a hand just ask: http://devtome.com/doku.php?id=how_to_get_setup_earning_devcoins_by_writing#write_your_articles_and_reference_your_work_on_your_userpage

Tell me about it, I'm holding just under 10 Million dvc and not liking this too much myself!

Nice, thank you, that makes perfect sense now

STOP SELLING! heheh just kidding. I am sure it will come back, but it was disheartening to see it drop like that over the last two weeks.

Dunno, what did you do? 

Dev's in the toilet guys, how come it lost half its value in the last 2 weeks?

I know, think that's my own tongue in cheek gone wrong there. Was just making the point that's the only thing stopping anyone helping out, otherwise I'd definitely appreciate it and we'd all benefit.

The byline...is just saying there's an article listed in that writer's page but the page doesn't exist (red link).

All the info is on this page for linking things and images: http://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=wiki:syntax&s[]=syntax

 Ive got it bookmarked because I cant remember them all

ok, next question.... how do i link to images i've uploaded to the Media Manager page?

I have the same issue, just figured it would work itself out sooner or later

I have a general question about getting marketing shares on Devtome...

If you have a website or websites with links to Devtome, do you get the shares one time or are they each round as long as the sites are still up? I ask because last round my shares for marketing were 12/5 but they are 0/0 so far this round.

Bittzy78

I don't think we meant it like it was an exclusive club, just saying it is by invite. The warning thing (devtome-warnings.txt or whatever) is a little weird to read, don't know what it means by can't find byline in edit or whatever it says. I understand the one that is about someone else editing that isn't in the approved editors list. At any rate Just wanted to say we didn't think it was only a popularity contest or whatever

No worries. I think everything devcoin is a collaborative work in progress so questioning and questions are always good

On volunteering to help (you and dalamar)- that's cool. It's not 'invite-only' as some sort of exclusive club, it's just that there's a system built into devtome that brings up warnings when articles are edited by the non-originator (protecting people's work from trolls etc), with an exceptions list. Obviously the more people that get involved the better for everybody, only it needs those people to be added to the list first to avoid problems and knock-on earnings issues, which I guess is on the basis of trust. It's not any personal view on you or anyone else. I suppose offering is the first step then hopefully volunteering/admin help - but volunteering is a nice problem to have.

There isnt a like button but if there was, I would click it, good on you for putting your hand up

Melodiem,
  I would volunteer as well, but I knew it was invite only. I think that you volunteering is good though (and I probably should have earlier) as it shows interest and a willing to help out, though helping out on the forums shows that too. Oh well, just thought I would volunteer too! Glad to see a lot of people involved and interested in DevCoin!

Cheers Weisoq,

I can see what you mean, I guess its a personal thing too, according to how people feel about their work and I agree it isn't (and shouldn't be) Wikipedia.

You make a good point about the Oz category, I will do some work on the article and see how it works. (Of course a really organised writer would not have put it up without dealing with all this first I guess

Thanks for your patient reply.

Re: admin, I haven't been around long Weisoq and  Im still learning Devtome. I actually nailed the syntax off-line and got it right online with the last article, suitably chuffed  but a long way to go to competent lol

This in general is an area for everybody to decide on, not me.

My opinion is that every non-fiction article should be sourced and referenced, otherwise it's not necessarily even non-fiction. As to then breaking that down to fact vs opinion, the problem is 1) Devtome is not wikipedia, and I don't think the world needs another wikipedia; 2) This would require a very high bar of proof and then comprehensive checks.

Therefore devtome is pretty much all opinion, because system methodology isn't yet able to prove otherwise, which makes having specific 'opinion' sections a bit pointless. Opinion is fine, but it still needs referencing. An opinionated rant or a incorrect spiel on 'science' though is not an article, again in my opinion. Basically claims should be justified.

Your article - if you're not sure about the justification via economic rationale but feel it correctly relates to Oz, you cuold put it in the australia, anthropology etc category instead - wherever you think it's most appropriate?

Volunteer - I think admin works on the basis of invites in the context of constructive input. You seem to show that, but it's not up to me.

I guess this is not a new issue from your comment. My concern was that having just posted a piece that fits very well in the economics category but is really just my opinion based on my observations and not a factual article, that having the option to include it in an opinion category would clarify this.

Thing is, if I set that bar and create the category, will anyone else do the same or will there be a little devtome category all for little old me?

I do think if people were willing to categorise their work this way it might lead to some overall clarity in the future.

Also, can I volunteer to help with categorising/filing so you mob are not so over worked? (Or is this the paid job I read about on Devtome?)


Oh...and I promise when it's tongue in cheek it wont be vague

It can be done via references, references and footnotes - will depend on the subject matter. The issue is that an increasing number of articles on alleged scientific and reference topics are amounting to unformatted word dumps or opinion. These articles need to be changed or at some point they may have to be removed because the value of a submission that provides incorrect 'factual' info is zero.

unclejed613: click 'edit' at top of front page - copy the text that you added to your own page to the top of the list there e.g. [[:New Article]]. You can't embed Video/HTML at this point (not activated, plugin not added - to avoid risk and because there's not yet anybody with the PHP skills to work on fixing any bugs on an ongoing basis), so yes via archive.org links. I think it's root.

smeagol: giftculturewriting said they're changing hosting or similar.

jdlrexy: There's a devtome section and link to those articles on the front page http://devtome.com/doku.php#topics although it has been explained that these things are more obvious to me than others so we do plan to work on changing the look/format when finished working through categorising/filing articles (another reason it would be great if all writers could get more involved with their own work and leave us more time for other)

melodiem : Unless that's tongue-in-cheek, what sort of opinion do you mean. Nice idea, but at this point most of devtome is already opinion and it might just prompt even less research/referencing of articles and more word dumps. Unless by 'opinion' you mean researched and justified opinion? There are categories for reviews, issues etc which offer a more-flexible venue for thoughts. In general though yes of course you can add new categories. It's very helpful if you do so to link that new category as subcategory to others (or let me/giftculturewriting know) or it could be lost in the devtome ether.