Chips, Text Ads, Blog Hierarchy
For several months, registered members have improved BlogShares by voting on which categories ("Industries") a particular blog belongs in. When moderators review and approve those votes, the members have received karma points. Till now, the only use for karma points was to become a moderator yourself after accumulating 25 points.
Now those karma points also give you chips, at a rate of 25 chips per karma point. You can spend these chips on the text ad block to the upper right. More ways to earn karma and spend chips are in the works.
You now also earn karma (and chips) by moderating votes, which had previously been a completely volunteer task. Moderating will result in 1 to 3 karma points (25 to 75 chips).
Point values and exchange rates will fluxuate according to the site's needs and we'll probably make keen little graphs of it.
Update: Win a BlogShares premium membership in this week's chip raffle. Good luck!
Update 2: Win chips in our caption contest.
Bonus: A javascript view of the industry hierarchy is in beta.
Comments
w0000000000000000t!
Posted by: SubWolf | July 13, 2004 10:34 PM
So how can we tell if she is made of wood?
Posted by: Sir Bedevere | July 13, 2004 11:43 PM
Blogad being displayed right now:
"My life as a gay
A world of a great pussy asking to be rape!"
Right. So blogshares.com now supports rape? Yes of course whoeever posted that is just trying to get some perverts to click on his ad. But rape, however "playfully" used, is immoral and illegal. It is absolutely not acceptable that there is no screening process, or this ad passed that process.
Posted by: Nils | July 14, 2004 09:05 AM
you should cap the # of karma points you can get through moderation each day... if someone is persistent enough, they could sit there and just approve everything, which would defeat the purpose of the moderation.
Posted by: hungryc | July 14, 2004 09:41 AM
Abused already :o(
You might have to moderate the ads if there are pillocks wanting to SPAM or link to filth. It does seem too easy to abuse as it stands, especially by disgruntled Portuguese men ;)
Posted by: rutty | July 14, 2004 11:07 AM