Editorial

First of all I would like to make sure that any criticism described on this article is done for constructive and optimization reasons and only. My intention as a member of the Publish0x community isn't to create problems or produce hate speech but provide my own opinion about few things that I personally don't find correct and provide the opportunity to the Publish0x Team to mitigate them. I am also very grateful of all my readers who have tipped my articles in the past and in the future and of course Publish0x for their generosity of providing the tipping funds from their pool and not from Publihs0x pockets.

Publish0x Tipping Points

The idea about this article - memo stroke my mind after leaving a comment to the article of -[ralleeee12] with title The tipping on Publish0x

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As it is mentioned on my comment, my strategy in tipping in Publish0x for quite few months now, isn’t to tip the “big guns” authors or multimillion companies who gather big amounts of tips not only because they write quality articles but also because they are for some reason popular and have followers that tip them blindly. Personally, I have chosen to tip only the authors with very little earnings trying to motivate them to write more and earn something substantial for their efforts. The rich shouldn’t always get richer.

I believe that Publish0x has been launched for the whole crypto-communiy for the unknown amateur independent writers not only for the professional writers who have published books on Amazon or the crypto professionals or the crypto "influencers" and the so called self promoted crypto-evangelists who want to become famous about their occupation with cryptos and might be able to write quality articles and earn a substantial amount of tips enough to stop working a proper job and live their lives with their crypto profits that the anonymous crypto community is providing to them  including the ones from Publish0x by exchanging their crypto-profits into Fiat money only to be trapped into the FIAT banking establishment.

As I have written in the past in a comment on the article of [Jane1289] with title Things That Beginners Shouldn't Do In The Crypto Space, if Satoshi Nakamoto wanted to become famous he would have uncovered his identity long time ago and become today a billionaire with the profits of bitcoin after the latest bull run. But if he had done so, he would have betrayed his legacy and the whole idea of cryptocurrency with bitcoin losing his entire value. Bitcoin wasn't invented for the fame but for providing to people an alternative open-source and public payment system outside the central banking systemic and corrupted establishment. We need to remain humble and follow his example if we want to brand ourselves cryptoentusiasts.

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I follow a similar strategy for the members of the Publish0x Team that earn tips just for doing their job and have plenty of time being online the whole day writing articles on their working hours. This is a genuine "Conflict of Interest" here and I am very surprised that [virtue soup] published an article about Igor Tomic, the COO of Publish0x accomplishment with title Lil Case Study of Igor Tomić's Article Posts on Publish0x just for doing his job! Really? Not only you spent time to do a research over Igor Tomic's earnings, you are providing your congratulations for that as well and you are expecting Publish0x members also to tip you ? No I am sorry but i was really critical on my comment left there.

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No hard feelings about Igor Tomic or anyone on the Publish0x Team, who I sympathise for his contribution on the platform but I should express my disagreement here.

Similar situation happens with well-established profitable crypto-businesses and crypto-exchange platforms that use Publish0x as a secondary blog to publish the news of their companies. So far so good and it is always welcome to see these crypto-corporations and consortiums trying to interact with their customer base and supporters in Publish0x. Of course Publish0x members are free to tip anyone, even these profitable crypto companies, however I find quite unfair the fact that rather profitable and successful crypto-corporations are being tipped from the Publish0x members and earn cryptos that they don't really need as they earn much more higher profits from their businesses. Here is two examples of such these 2 corporations that have chosen to use Publish0x as a secondary blog platform and earn quite significant amounts of tips at the same time for just publishing the news and promotions of their corporations.

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My question here is:

"Are Kucoin and Presearch who earn thousands of dollars from their operations in real need of being tipped in Publish0x and earn crypto-funds against the ordinary independent users who only get pennies if they will be successful in attracting readers and tippers?"

My strategy and argument can be very well reinforced from the following snapshot of the Nervos Publish0x articles about the Coinmarket Nervos Learn & Earn campaign back on February. As it was obvious many Publish0x members rushed into creating their own article for the campaign in order to earn some tips which i find completely normal.

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What I don't find normal and very unjustified is the fact that although the majority of the articles got only few tips worth only few cents of dollars, there is ONE single article that somehow it was pumped and earned $11.47 for writing EXACTLY the same things with the rest of the articles that they earned only pennies. The correct responses of the Learn and Earn campaign. How the heck is that possible unless this is a case of a targeted pumped tipping? And I have removed the names of the publishers as my aim isn't to focus and criticize a specific publisher but the fact that that article was tipped from many "followers" as I should brand them who just tipped the specific article only obviously it was written from that specific author!

Another example is the following where 2 similar articles about Alien Wars earnings and stats were happened to be published by 2 different authors on the same day on 22nd May 2021 describing their earnings from the game. Interestingly, the one that it was published first and with a duration of 7 mins read got just $0.35 but the 2nd with a 3 minute read got $5.13. How again is that possible? And my frustration isn't because the one with the fewer tips belongs to me but it is obvious that some users tend to blindly tip specific publishers without checking or tipping the rest of the published articles with similar and possibly better content.

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And I should certainly mention here that I am grateful for all the earnings that I have raised from tips so far in Publish0x from my readers and tippers. However, another thing that I would like to mention is the fact although I put a lot or efforts "advertising" my articles on different social media with success and I have a considerably big numbers of visits, only few tend to tip them as well, which I find very annoying. I can't understand when every user has 7 tips per day, when he puts some effort to click my article link and visit my article when he scrolls down towards the end of the article where the tipping button is, he decides to exit from my article without tipping, when he could just tip me an 20% of the tipping pool and keep for himself the rest 80% !!! Especially since the tipping comes as a reward from Publish0x tipping pool and not from members' wallets. 

Allow me to say that I find it quite stupid the fact that although i have 2,000 visits in my articles for the past 30 days (as of 15th of May 2021), I have managed to raise only $0.18 when all these 2,000 visits could have left me $0.01 tip each from the Publish0x tipping pool raising $20 instead!!! and I believe that the majority of the Publish0x members are on the similar situation.

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Anakin Skywalker might claim that Publish0x tipping system actually represents a scale-free network where Publish0x authors represent the nodes of the network and the tips from the readers Publish0x-authors the links between these nodes, as it is described in publication A.-L. Barabási & R. Albert “Emergence of Scaling in Random Networks” and at Laszlo Barabasi's book with title “Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life“ Perseus Publishing March 2003. Therefore just like [PVMihalache] stated in his comments it is quite normal that the tipping distribution follows a power law pattern where few publishers gets more tips because they tend to publish more quality content than the others representing the hubs of the network and the majority of the Publishers gets fewer tips only because their content isn't good enough to be tipped (For whoever has the curiosity about the scale-free networks, an educational summary can be found here: https://www.futurelearn.com/info/courses/complexity-and-uncertainty/0/steps/1855).

The above situation can be well summarised in what it is called the Matthew Effect (Matthew 25:29) of the rich get richer and the poor poorer as follows in ancient Greek, in modern Greek and in English:

τῷ γὰρ ἔχοντι παντὶ δοθήσεται καὶ περισσευθήσεται, ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ μὴ ἔχοντος καὶ ὃ ἔχει ἀρθήσεται ἀπ᾿ αὐτοῦ.

Γιατί σε καθέναν που έχει, θα του δοθεί με το παραπάνω και θα ’χει περίσσευμα· ενώ απ’ όποιον δεν έχει, θα του πάρουν και τα λίγα που έχει.

For whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.

However, as i have written in my comment to [PVMihalache], I tend to be a man of fairness and equality and I believe that it is worthy to follow a tipping strategy that goes against that power law distribution of Publish0x tipping and start supporting the low earners who might not have plenty followers to keep tipping their articles no matter their quality instead of tipping blindly the hubs of the tipping network that possibly publish quality content too or the big corporations who use the platform in order to reach their audience and they don't need the tipping funds, or the Publihs0x Team members who are just doing their jobs by running and publishing articles and marketing promotions aka writing contests announcements on the platform and they are being paid for that reason - unless if they run the Publish0x platform voluntarily as a hobby. But I believe that at least for Igor, Publish0x COO position is a full time paid job. For me, the rich shouldn't get richer on Publish0x.

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Publish0x GiveAways

Another important issue that I find worth to provide my criticism is the organization of Publshi0x NFTs giveaways from specific members who are interested to promote their NFT publication business through the platform by organising NFT giveaways. And they do very well and again I am very grateful for the NFTs that were dropped into my wax NFT collection by them and specifically from [Robertoit] from Periodic Table Of Elements - NFT collection giveaways and CoinSteps NFT collection. And again here first of all I would like to express my respect and appreciation to these two organisers for their generosity dropping their NFTs not only to me but also to many other Publish0x members in order to promote their work and any criticism that i make he should be only considerated as constructive in order to optimize their giveaways.

Unfortunately, what I really don't like is that in the Terms and Conditions of the giveaways, the organisers choose to provide an initial number of free NFTs to the first X commentators that would leave their wax address on the comment. Here's an example described on the article [NFT GIVEAWAY] Until 1924 only a single gram of pure indium had been mined - The Periodic Elements NFT.

My reaction in the comment section was the following:

Similar reaction to CoinSteps article with title The Prominent Joke - The Happy Crypto Family [NFT GIVEAWAY] my comment and I should say that I appreciate CoinSteps reply therefore I really wanted to add it here:

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And just like Anakin Skywalker, someone might very well respond that "My Giveaway, my Rules"

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Certainly that's completely correct. However there is an ethical side that should be also very well to point out here because noone can be 24/7 online checking which giveaways are available in order to participate instantly by leaving our wax address on the comments. I believe that the majority if not all the Publish0x users and members, have real life obligations as well, work, family, sleep, personal care etc. So we can't be always on the top20 comments getting the NFT for free without being into the raffle. What is ethically correct when you organize a giveaway, is to set ethical and fair rules and all the participants to participate equally in the raffle and you shouldn't prioritize the ones that happened to be online exactly the time that the giveaway was posted in order to get the NFT without entering a raffle with the rest of the participants. Even worse, what it came into my attention is that most of the times, it is the usual members that comment first their participation as soon as the article is being published leaving to me and to the other participants a huge suspicion that there is an abuse and that the organizer whispers to his friends the publishing time in order that they will be ready to comment first and get the NFT without entering the raffle which completely unfair for the rest of the participants who might live in a different timezone than the publisher and at the time of the publishing, they might be sleeping or working or being offline completely and lose the opportunity of dropping a free NFT. If the organizers want to organise a FAIR and ETHICAL giveaway where all participants have the possibility to participate EQUALLY with the same probability to have the NFT dropped into their wax account, they should provide that Equal probability to the participants by entering everyone in the raffle and not prioritizing the top20 quickest participants after a whisper or not by providing them the NFT for free. And possibly sometimes I am lucky and be in the top commentators getting the NFT for free, I believe in fairness of the giveaways so I don't really care if in a future raffle I won't be that lucky although i was one of the first commentators.

***Disclaimer: All information found on this article is for informational purposes only. I do not provide any personal investment advice so please make your own research before proceeding to any investment/trading action.***

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