I have an idea. It seems to me what Devtome needs is a better way to reward high quality writing, and to discourage bad quality writing. Why don't we install this free wiki-voting software?
https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.page-commment-vote-pluginIt's free for open source websites, such as Devtome. It would allow for there to be a voting option on each page that is created.
I don't think everyone who writes anything on Devtome should get paid. That has been tried and tested, and we can see the results. Content quality is lacking on many Devtome articles. It's reasonable to say that only those with good enough writing should get paid, otherwise we will end up with a website full of crap. So far we have had no fair way to decide which articles are worthy, but if we installed this voting system it will enable us to build a much higher quality website.
For example, if we installed the software and made a new rule that only the top 20 voted articles each round earn any money, people will have much more incentive to write good quality work, as well as promote their work to get more votes. It will also mean that the money is divided up to a smaller group, so those who do get paid will get paid
more, as well as reducing the amount of low quality work that is published. I don't know how many articles are posted to Devtome each round so maybe it should be more like the top 50 get paid rather than only the top 20, but you get the idea.
A final point is that we wouldn't want voting to be possible on category pages, or the main pages where there are instructions, hopefully that can be configured in the settings.
I really think this is what Devtome needs to clean itself up, and raise the value of DVC.
Any thoughts? Can we make this happen?