I decided to get aggressive with the new design. Jeremy and I are going to revolutionize the blog game, yet again, through meritocracy and totem pole hierarchy. Without revealing too much too soon, I will tell you that you are all being examined. What you do on the site, from checking in to commenting to retweeting or posting to Facebook to posting a blog in the blogger network, it is all being accounted for and rank (think corporate ladder) will be assigned to each of you.
This goes for staff writers too.
There will be no bottom to the new iBC. And, yes, there will be a prison, with listed names of outlawed criminals.
The iBC Tower aka Totem pole will rank all of you, according to the things I mentioned above. To climb this ladder, you must be an active member of the community and earn iBC Reserve notes (every action pays at a different rate). Moreover, you will have expenses, such as small tenement dwellings for lowly cretins or penthouse apartments overlooking Central Park for some of you aristocrats. In a way, it’s the gamification of iBankCoin. However, always keep in mind, this shit isn’t a game (even though it really is).
FORECLOSURE NOTICES WILL BE EMAILED WHEN YOU ARE NO LONGER ABLE TO HOLD YOUR POSITION IN THE TOWER.
Regarding content, everything is created equal, with exception to me and the boys from 12631. The site’s core focus will be on freshness and efficacy of content. This also means I will be scrutinizing content deriving from the bowels of the blogger network and will fire you for lack of style and intelligence.
Chronological order will be restored.
The obvious winners will be the people who truly want to make a name for themselves. I am allowing you to be featured on a platform, like none other in the financial blogosphere, so don’t abuse it.
NOTE: Bloggers in the blogging network will also be afforded the luxury of being able to choose front page pictures.
PAL tracks with Palladium prices which tracks with gold prices. PAL miness 160,000 ounces of Palladium a year at a cost of $400 per ounce. For each dollar the price of palladium rises then thats $160,000 dollars in profit for PAL. At this point I can picture PAL moving up in multiples over the course of the next month. While AMZN will not move up 300-400%, PAL just might…
With 163MM shares outstanding they better hope the price of platinum goes up… A lot.
When do the new changes hit?
maybe next week
TMoe buys INFA
“What you do on the site, from checking in to commenting to retweeting or posting to Facebook to posting a blog in the blogger network, it is all being accounted for and rank (think corporate ladder) will be assigned to each of you.”
Sounds like a regular day using any Google product.
Understood. What’s good for iBC will be good for your ranking.
Will all comments have the same value as far as the “system” is concerned?
Will we be able to see our rank? (I imagine not.)
You will be able to see your income and account balances.
A comment is a comment. We will not discriminate.
So the number of comments earn cash, but do the number refreshes on iBC earn cash too?
If so, just reserve a place in the penthouse for me.
no
And yes, everyone will be listed, like you see above, on side bar, all the way down. It could number in the thousands. Really innovative code here by Jeremy.
Thinking bout changing name to
Henry Fool Degenerate Gamble Trader
You like??
no. Change it to iMAX’d You
ALLIN FOOL
BOT $GSVC
BOT mmore $INFA
does everybody get a clean slate
So this new feature will justify via metrics how I spend entirely too much time here and not enough time with my family.
Any chance for some podcast action for us multi-taskers. I’m sure it is too time consuming compared to benefit, but it could be a good traffic driver…though you’d get a lot of riff raff. Okay..lower quality riff raff than is currently here.
But I’m addicted to podcasts…so don’t go by me.
I like the futures bar at top, that will be much appreciated.
Totem poll. ?
Er. Will need to practice better PR to PC spin.