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Blogshares=What is BlogShares?= BlogShares is a simulated, fantasy stock market for weblogs where players invest fictional money to buy stocks and bonds in an artificial economy where attention is the commodity and weblogs are the companies. =How does it work?= Weblogs, or blogs for short, are valued by their incoming links from other known blogs. In effect, links become the business deals in the simulation and players speculate on the fortunes of thousands of blogs by buying and selling shares. A whole host of options exist for advanced play including gifting shares, leveraged buy-outs, stock splits, additional share issues, market and player bonds. =Gameplay Objects= This section contains a description of several objects used in gameplay. Industries Industries in BlogShares are the same as categories. Industries produce ideas. Ideas are a commodity that can be traded among players, bought and sold. You can think of ideas as the product of several blogs grouped under an idea. Ideas can be stockpiled, some more than others, or combined to build artefacts. Industries are split into categories and sub-categories. In total, there are 26 main categories. It is predicted that the hierarchy will grow to be even more complex with a new indexing feature to be put into use in the near future. Artefacts Artefacts are tools in the BlogShares universe. They have six functions that can affect blogs and one that affects ideas. Artifacts alone have no value, and do not contribute to overall net worth, but can be used to influence the player's wealth. Artefacts are only usable on blogs that have been voted into the artefact's specific industry. How to create an artefact To create an artefact... To do =Currency= BlogShares has two main currencies. B$ The functional currency used in BlogShares is B$. There's no standard as to its meaning: "BlogShares dollars", "blog dollars" or "bloggars" can be used. B$ is the currency used to purchase shares in blogs, ideas in industries or can be traded among players. The B$ has no real-life value supported by Santa Cruz Tech. Chips The "social currency" of BlogShares is chips. Chips is supposedly an allusion to poker chips. Chips can be earnt in a number of ways, among them by answering a survey with a limited supply of questions, being gifted chips by another player or receiving incoming referral links. Chips can then be used to participate in raffles, which usually are worth real-life prizes, or used to buy advertisement space on the front page, or gifted to other players. =Rules, Rule Enforcement & Cheaters= BlogShares has a strong rule-enforcing department, the BSEC - Blogshares Securities & Exchange Commission. The BSEC is made up of several moderators that detect cases of cheating and deliberate what and how the punishment should be administrated. Cheaters at BlogShares are known as CHEATYPANTS. External links * BSEC @ BlogShares.com
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