The one issue that struck me about those huge journals was performance. FA really needs comment paging - at least for their own announcements. That single page about the spam is 17Mb and 1200 requests, including images (it'd be 50Mb if not for duplicates). The HTML alone is near 700k compressed. This wouldn't be such an issue - such journals are rare - except they direct everyone to look at it, and of course this results in lots of comments, just like the ones they're talking about. It can't be good for bandwidth usage or site speed.
Your logarithmic return suggestion seems like it would discourage people from spreading the word. It is better to have a 1 in 10 chance of $10 than a 1 in 100 chance of $20. Also, I suspect anything which encourages journals will be at risk of being tamped down.
This also only applies to FA journals. People are already saying "you'll get an extra entry if I see you linking in from IB/Weasyl/SF/dA/Tumblr". The people who are using this don't care about the negative impact on any site; they are just looking for a quick route to popularity.
The one issue that struck me about those huge journals was performance. FA really needs comment paging - at least for their own announcements. That single page about the spam is 17Mb and 1200 requests, including images (it'd be 50Mb if not for duplicates). The HTML alone is near 700k compressed. This wouldn't be such an issue - such journals are rare - except they direct everyone to look at it, and of course this results in lots of comments, just like the ones they're talking about. It can't be good for bandwidth usage or site speed.
. . . and while I was writing, a comment was added stating that this is already high on their list. So, good.
Your logarithmic return suggestion seems like it would discourage people from spreading the word. It is better to have a 1 in 10 chance of $10 than a 1 in 100 chance of $20. Also, I suspect anything which encourages journals will be at risk of being tamped down.
This also only applies to FA journals. People are already saying "you'll get an extra entry if I see you linking in from IB/Weasyl/SF/dA/Tumblr". The people who are using this don't care about the negative impact on any site; they are just looking for a quick route to popularity.