Sharing for Free vs. Paying [solved]

[pachzevel]

Question:

I enjoy sharing some of my stuff for free, such as Barron's, Wall Street Journal, and analyst research.

I am, of course, interesting in becoming a high-level member.

Do I lose out by sharing for free as opposed to asking for "dollars" and experience in order to view the content I post?

Thanks,

PZ

[Fx_Gold]

Hi PACHZEVEL :)


Thanks a lot for sharing FOR FREE your infos.... :D

Don't be afraid, we are not forgetting you and your sharing-attitude, and we will retribute you in compensation for your time and efforts. :o

Normally, in the next days....

Bye

F

[YouSeeWealth]

Question:

I enjoy sharing some of my stuff for free, such as Barron's, Wall Street Journal, and analyst research.

I am, of course, interesting in becoming a high-level member.

Do I lose out by sharing for free as opposed to asking for "dollars" and experience in order to view the content I post?

Thanks,

PZ

I believe you are asking whether the assignment of the experience and wealth has any impact on your progression towards a top member on this forum.

The short answer is no since the payment of wealth is sent to the system rather than the member. You won't be affected simply because you want to share to more members. It's also why we don't design a payment system which member get direct benefit from the sale of the shares. If a member wants his stuff to be shared to more members, we ensure he won't get penalised.

The long answer is still no. Well, although you receive nothing when someone paid for your shares, the share (resource) value is a major factor of the award (the higher value, the more award). It reflects in the cost of the share too (so the higher cost assignment, the more award).

If you want to override the system cost and use yours, we will have extra work to do since we have to keep the default cost as a record so we won't calculate the wrong award.

If you know what you are doing and think it is good to the community as a whole, we can follow your cost setting. We are humans and our cost setting isn't always the best.

We would encourage a reasonable cost assignment as an incentive for new members to contribute.

There are generally two ways to set cost in your way:
The easier method: Tell us what range of cost do you prefer? For example, low/mid/high cost setup. We will work out the exact amount for you within your range.
The harder method: Understand or get a feeling about our cost mechanism and the cost range. Then tell us the exact amount you want.If you have other questions, please feel free to ask.

Best Wishes

YouSeeWealth Staff

[pachzevel]

Thanks for the detailed reply. I wasn't so much looking to override the values of the system cost -- they're fine, and my understanding is that if you leave each value at "1", then the system will automatically assign a value (which is better than I could do anyway -- I valued research reports at 500 the first time I tried to post something, LOL).

I was just wondering if, in my efforts to become a top-level member, if doing things like posting this weekend's Barron's magazine, research reports, etc. would be rewarded equally whether or not I ask the system to "charge" for them. I'm inclined to post them "for free," as I've done, to lessen the burden on the mods, and so they go out is as timely a manner as possible.

OTOH, it takes me time to put them together, and it would be nice to see my status grow as a result.

Clear as mud?

PZ

[Chronus]

What's the point of sharing free weekend's Barron's magazine, research reports? This sorts of reports are everywhere and they will be outdated very soon. I don't think any reasonable trader will rely on the so-called reports. Will you?

[pachzevel]

Hi Chronus,

Barron's is not free -- it costs $99/year to subscribe.

I don't buy or sell based on research reports, but the ones I post here are ones I find particularly useful, and do help with my analysis of stocks, sectors, markets etc. They are not available to the public, otherwise I would not bother posting them.

Having said that, if they're not particularly useful to others, there's no point in me taking the time to upload them and share them.