I love the concept of publish0x. The idea to reward content-creators and content-consumers at the same time is brilliant, and I would love for this plattform to become successful. But in my opinion, there are at least two improvements that are absolutely essential to making that possible:

1) Quality Control

The "new" tab right now is populated to well over 90% by no-effort, low-quality, crypto ref-link spam. Readers treating this site as yet another faucet contribute only the minimum 20% to these articles, but they still tip them just like any other article. This becomes a problem when the site ranks articles in the "popular" tab by no other criterion than tips gathered. I'm sure the dev team behind publish0x is working on something in this regard, but in the meantime we would all benefit from being less careless with which articles to tip. With the daily limit on tipping being quite low, it really isn't much of a sacrifice for us all to scroll just a bit further and find a decent article that actually deserves the reward. We'll all be better off for it.

2) Moving beyond crypto

With regards to the content of articles posted here, I think the crypto-focus is holding back this site's development. I made some effort yesterday by publishing an article on animal resarch I've been working on for quite some time. I know I'm not the best of writers, but I will continue to make an effort to supply some content that might bring in at least some readers from outside the crypto-bubble. I very much hope that writers better than me will follow suit. More readers means both more content and more rewards. Writing yet another crappy "bitcoin chart analysis" or "best faucets" post will only drive away readers, and only leave users of the faucet-minded click-drone type. This site won't survive long on that alone.

Having a site that offers both interesting content and proper rewards for both readers and writers would be absolutely fantastic. Let's all try to put in some effort to make that happen.

PS: We also really need a logo in which the lines are equally spaced. It drives me nuts.