Explaining Something Brand New

A lot of what we're doing on Cent is brand new.

Bounties for non-coders, new. Paying users to sort answers supported by an algorithm, new. And there is a whole lot more 'new' that's about to be released soon.

None of what we're doing is overly complicated though, but because it's so new there is a thick fog of doubt surrounding it.

For example, when it comes to our sorting system (a dead simple mechanism that relies on users signaling their preference for one response over another) many believe that it is being abused by users who seek to take home a portion of the bounties that get distributed to users by sorting responses blindly.

If you take a look at the responses that are finally sorted to the top and bottom of the response threads though, it becomes clear as day that the system is working. But since users aren't seeing, or aren't believing what they're seeing, we need to constantly repeat the fact that - at least as of now - it is actually working.

Repetition or brute forcing new concepts into peoples minds is the only way to get new concepts to stick.

So I put together a brief explainer that looks into sorting and how Centians are sorting responses in this week's Cent Spotlight #4. Check it out here and share it on Twitter or somewhere else on the internet then give me feedback or suggestions for next week's Cent Spotlight topic over on Cent here. And Cent on.