I like this idea too. I have been pretty shy about mentioning my sales numbers because I felt like it was prideful or something, but this seems like a more data driven thing for the purpose of information sharing, and it spares having to write some sort of preamble for why I am sharing etc., which is a problem for me (blah blah, get over yourself, etc.... can't really help it.. childhood, etc.). So I like this.
I will say that my online experience over the last nearly two decades suggests that like email spam, like SEO, like video game hacks, like Amazon reviews, and exploiters from China and wherever ... any time a system comes about to do something cool, interesting and useful, people bent on making money come game it. They always do, and typically ruin it. It becomes a coding fight between the developers and the exploiters. I just hope you guys can somehow stay ahead of them (and yes, I saw the post about how we can police ourselves, but in the end those arguments always come down to data, and if you can't prove it, well, then it's merely a matter of ideals and morality... squirrel just trying to get a nut vs. the Utopian purists, etc. yet again).
And I repeat, I love this idea. I just worry what it will become when the waves of self-promoting "squirrels" spot the value and begin to metastasize.
