Topic: [DVC]DevCoin - Official Thread - Moderated - page 256. (Read 1059181 times)

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.

Are we able to suggest/add new categories to Devtome? I would like to see "opinion" as a category

Isnt the original one doing adjustments like once every few weeks? But ours is every single block?

With merged mining we have less of an issue with miners causing such a big change in hash to affect the difficulty no?

Its done now so only another fork will be able to improve/fix it anyway.

Thanks. Don't need help with anything in particular. Actually, just took a glance at the boat load of articles that address devtome issues and suddenly feel like there is a need for more. Maybe this info needs to be organized and prominently displayed on the main page... just a thought

If you type Devtome into the search on Devtome, it returns a heap of articles by everyone else has thought just that too I decided not to rebuild the wheel but I did add a template page to help me keep my pages consistent. What are you having trouble with?

I was wondering if I can claim one of the remaining Investment Plan Bounties for this plan I put together. (http://devtome.com/doku.php?id=devcoin_bounty_engine) My intention was to write up a business plan that can be invested in by using devcoins that would benefit the whole devcoin community. Just wondering if my interpretation of business plan fits the description required by this bounty...

I wrote it last week, but just finally found some time to figure out how to properly post it on devtome. For a future article I might write up a noob's guide to Devtome in very simple English.

Bitcoin does not need it because it was the first coin made, and the biggest, so miners are always mining bitcoins. With altcoins, a miner can choose to mine the altcoin or not. What therefore happens is that if the coin value rises, then miners jump in, mining a lot of coins, way faster than one per ten minutes. Then the difficulty steps up, and at that block, it is no longer worth mining, so instead of a block every ten minutes, it can be hours between blocks. That's why most altcoins must have a short time difficulty algorithm.

Whoever is responsible (Unthinkingbit, twobits?) for the difficulty transition algorithm change in the devcoin source needs to explain to me why this was done, as this created an un-needed fork. Why do we need to do change difficulty transition logic away from bitcoin when bitcion doesn't even need it?

This has created much stress in development as the android client kept throwing up because last few hundred blocks were un available due to checkpointing (and gave me massage headaches as well as future devcoin developers IM SURE). The new algo depends on the last few hundred blocks to do averaging rather then just get the last diff and figure out the next diff, I haven't seen many complaints of this.

Even the new devcoin client had to make exceptions to make this "work" with older clients.

I just think these kinds of things need to be thought over a little bit more before they are implemented.

Anyone developing any devcoin applications will have to follow this construed logic in order to be able to port applications and leverage development power from bitcoin.

There are other coins as well to be aware of :
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/deleted-super-old-thread-411671
Be careful until they fix the issues. And always do some test sends with Cryptsy. Deposits and withrawals.

Awesome -thanks

they should be in root

Oh, ok.    I'll have Unthinkingbit confirm that and then I'll give you the bounty!

I see - well the first DVC press release we did which went on Yahoo Finance, Wallstreet Journal etc was funded by Devcoin. So maybe someone would be kind enough to write a review? Otherwise UnthinkingBit funded it so perhaps he would need to provide the review.

He's so busy running the project though I don't want to give him more to do!

Is there a review by anyone who's purchased press releases with devcoin?  To get the bounty you need a review.

Bitcoin PR Buzz is eligible too I think (we accept DVC for press releases - and have been paid in DVC by clients) http://bitcoinprbuzz.com

Is altcoin cards working?  They are eligible for the 3 share non mining business bounty, if the site is working.