As you haven't stated either your motives or the benefit that this site would have from being in cohorts with BlogShares, I had a quick look around this site. Its own description says:

BlogShares is a fantasy stock market where weblogs are the companies. Players invest fictional dollars on shares in blogs. Blogs are valued by their incoming links and add value to other blogs by linking to them. Prices can go up or down based on trading and the underlying value of the blog.

I don't really understand how PerlMonks could be treated in this respect other than participating in a circle-jerk cross-linking, which I can't imagine as productive at all.

There also seems to be a pay-for-a-link scheme going on, as this "sidebox" text seems to suggest:

20 Chips for a link
Just reopened! You link to my site, I'll give you 20 chips. Link should not be in post form, but on the side/blogroll. As long as I have chips in the mission, game on! Put a...

I understand that Perlmonks linking to other sites would be beneficial to the other sites, but I don't understand what Perlmonks could gain from this at all - I more wonder if this is a cheap device to employ google-bombing and blog-spamming to improve search results. I only wonder if the link to BlogShares that you posted in your root node maybe already counts as eligible link towards this goal.

This not so randomly picked story seems to reinforce the idea of post-spamming for spammings sake - posts on Perlmonks get posted because the questioner wants a solution to their Perl problem, and get answered because the answering monk wants to help, and not because of somebody trying to advance in some weird game of shares.

So, as long as you don't explain what benefits for the website could come out of this, I say that your idea is a dangerous idea that will be very detrimental to Perlmonks.

In reply to Re: API or scraping perlmonks.org for external reward systems? by Corion
in thread API or scraping perlmonks.org for external reward systems? by japh

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