MGoAppstore for user contributed content?
Copying Apple's model, what do people think about an 'app store' for user contributed content? I've seen some very in-depth, well researched Diaries/user-contributed content. That's gotta be worth something, considering the time that was poured into it. There would be an approval process to make sure it wasn't garbage. I'm thinking $0.50 an article to begin with. Oh, and there would be a free section. If you want to make the stuff you write free, you can do that too.
70% would go to Brian, 30% would go to the author.
Yes, I know there is a large contingent of people that think information should be free, etc. Android users (ha!)
But the model is well documented. People will pay you, if you let them. I would certainly pay $5-10/month for good content.
ESPN is many, many years away from anything like this. I think this would really take MGoBlog a step forward.
Obviously there are a huge number of coding that would need to be done, but yeah. Just throwing this out there for the time being.
No thanks
Instead of paying, I would just not read the user created diaries
All it would do is make more threads titled "Diary Rumors: TomVH?" to which 90 people would reply asking for what it said and not wanting to pay for it.
Or Michigan player, ..........., Rumor: May not make it to campus?
There already is a Beveled Guilt button, and I would guess Brian, Tim, and Tom (does he receive any payments?) are not exactly swimming around in money from it. I don't know how much another button would increase donations, but I doubt it would be much more than what it takes away from Beveled Guilt, and I don't think there is enough extra cash from that to start handing out payments for diaries.
Actually most people have donated to the beveled guilt button. Why haven't you?
Ads, HTTV, etc. make it all run. It helps that Brian hates money and spends it all on this site, whether paying his staff (includes me and Paul too) or buying upgrades.
Uh, I have donated, and your making my point for me. The money that would go to people for writing diaries would mostly take away from the money people donate to Beveled Guilt, meaning less money for Brian to spend on this site, whether paying his staff (including you and Paul too) or buying upgrades.
I was just beveling guilt a bit. Shoulda added the sarcasm mark or something.
at you Karpodiem. Android > iOS.
iOS5 > android
Hows that 4G workin out for ya?
and decide if we want to pay for them. eh?
Interesting idea, wrong place.
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<br>One thing that I think might be useful, though, is a more formal way to evaluate diarists' methods. I love reading diaries, but more often than not I get hung up on a methodological flaw that I think is so serious that it completely undermines the findings. It'd be nice to have a rating system or official MGoJournal or something to help define what can be reasonably used to define our understanding of this stuff and what cannot. Otherwise, the good and not-so-good kind of get mixed together in a confusing soup of findings.
True, but how long is it usually before this gets brought out in the comments? People take their stuff seriously around here (IIRC there were suggestions to improve your [very cool BTW] ranking system within about half an hour of it being posted). I know my two diaries have both had issues called out, and mine didn't even include much, if any, analysis.
ehhh....IF anything I would rather have a "subscription" model rather than a pay per article.
This place would turn into bleacherreport faster than you could blink.
Besides, the market works fine as it is now. If you post something that you really feel is valuable, Brian doesn't seem to have an issue with reposting it on your own site.
It just sounds like an excuse to make money off of Brian to me. But then, WTF do I know?
is put youtube like ads on certain articles, like the main page ones for instance, so when you click the read more button or something, theyd be a 10 or 15 second ad.
But heres the kicker, the more MGoPoints you have, the shorter the ad. That way real contributors would ideally not have an ad (or a very short one) while flamers and trollers have to wait longer. It should contribute to better discussion too.
There are enough crappy posts from posters trying to get points, I don't want to imagine how bad it would be if there was an actual reward for doing so.
take care of the problem? I actually have no idea because I dont have that many points, but thats just kinda how I assumed it worked.
Not if you have to pay cash money to downvote some bullshit.
EDIT: Whoops, totally missed the part about YouTube style ads and thought this was still about paying to read certain posts. Posts, which will just get "stolen" and posted in such a way not to violate copyright on other Mich websites like we do with Scout/Rivals stuff.