That’s a very interesting point, and one that I hadn’t considered. One
possibility would be to have a few days at the beginning of each week in which
only the person with the top reward (i.e. the “main” officeholder). This would
help in the most common cases, but maybe would still discourage sharing to some
degree? Would be interesting to get the opinions of officeholders with
open-source code right now.
Another idea: could we have some “license” on our code that gave the programmer
some of the coins for reports generated with it? (Presumably this would be
implemented in Agoran rules/contracts, with the “actual” license on the code
remaining BSD or whatever.)
Gaelan
> On Oct 26, 2019, at 6:16 PM, Jason Cobb <jason.e.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/26/19 8:53 PM, Gaelan Steele wrote:
>> TL;DR: No “officeholders”; anyone can do a job if it hasn’t been done yet
>> that {week,month}. They get paid for doing so, and get paid more if they’ve
>> been doing it consistently or if it’s been overdue for a while.
>
> This is an interesting idea - but I think it might disincentivize publishing
> preliminary information and having public utilities for generating reports.
> Right now, I have some public code that formats assessments; if another
> player could take that code and publish an assessment, then someone else can
> just use the work I've put in to get a reward. This means it's harmful for
> people to publish code, so some people might just keep it a secret, which
> hurts both future historical research and the community as a whole.
>
> Of course, I'm not doing the work of Assessor solely because I get a few
> coins for it, but I do worry that this idea might move incentives in the
> wrong direction.
>
> --
> Jason Cobb
>
