[Search-l] Fwd: Scour invite

[Mark (Markie)]

reading back over my mail, maybe i was a bit ott and i appologise for that
now.

however wikia does have revenue, both ad and private investment, so them not
having money is not a problem.  the issue of rewards though to me is
synonymous with greed. ie where money comes so do more peole, however
quality may not.  managing to seperate between "good" and "bad"
contributions and then seperating out rewards to only the "right" people
would IMO be VERY hard to do, so to me isnt really a viable idea.  however i
do agree that it would be nice :-p  i would also agree that an incentive to
edit/contribute would be good, however looking at projects such as wikipedia
they have no incentives, so it may just be a waiting game for now.  if we
manage to increase the use, then hopefully the quality and therefore useage
would then snowball and would be a positive feedback cycle of improving
quality -> more users -> improving quality etc etc.  also the site stats are
showing a steady and evenly increasing trend of around 2-4% so hoepfully we
are on the first part of the above cycle :-)

regards (and appologies for the bulky mail)

mark

On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 10:06 PM, Marc . <marcnaweb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
> The first link that appears in the mail was only www.scour .com
> anyway I understand your angry and u are right, i should delete any
> other link (i did it now) --and put a space in the scoour link to
> avoid any misunderstands)..
>
> Coming to the reward system, this approach could benefit wikia if it
> made in a different/ "wikia original" way to engage people to
> collaborate in the community.
>
> Apparently wikia doesn´t has any revenue yet, but the quality of the
> SE could allow it to have it, in this case the contributors could have
> a share (let say, 20%) of the revenues according to their contribution
> --this could be done if we "adapt" the ESP game  (cited here in a mail
> before) to work in results pages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESP_Game
> (yes, i am a marketing man and think that a strong marketing plan
> could make wikia works better ; )
> What do you think?
>
> Best Regards,
> Marc Rosenfeld
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 2008/8/30, Mark (Markie) <newsmarkie at googlemail.com>:
> > ive gotta say this is a lame attempt to get your self referal credits on
> > scour  :-(  also ive had a look at it and it seems the credit system
> means
> > that the actual input is lame to be honest, (try searching for cheese and
> > look at the comments)
> >
> > the idea of rewards in itself isnt too bad, but finding the funds and
> > checking it to make sure that what your paying people for isnt indeed
> crap
> > is the hard bit. mahalo seems to manage it well enough, but ive heard
> from
> > various people that contibuting/working for them is a pain in the....
> >
> > anyways ive refused to click your referal link, try harder next time
> >
> > regards
> >
> > mark
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Marc . <marcnaweb at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > > I received this invite: apparently this SE is approaching a similar
> > > way to wikia to get better results: the users "votes" in the best
> > > results, and can receive money for it, but cannot customize their
> > > results, like in wikia.
> > > However, maybe wikia could make a similar "points rewards" to market
> > > the SE among Internet users, what do you think?
> > >
> > > Best Regards,
> > > Marc Rosenfeld
> > >
>
> > > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > > From: .... <noreply at scour.com>
> > > Date: 2008/8/30
> > > Subject: Scour invite from Gabriel Toueg
> > > To: marcnaweb at gmail.com
> > >
> > >
> > > Did you hear about Scour? It is the next gen search engine with
> > > Google/Yahoo/MSN results and user comments all on one page. Best of all
> we
> > > get rewarded for using it by collecting points with every search,
> comment
> > > and vote. The points are redeemable for Visa gift cards It's like
> earning
> > > credit card or airline points just for searching. Hit the link below to
> > join
> > > and we will both get points!
> > > > > I know you'll like it!
> > >
> > > - .....
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > If you would prefer not to receive invitations from ANY Scour members
> > > please click here -
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