Remove Edit Primary Links in Drupal

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Drupal Image Modules

Two more modules that should be installed by default but aren't (why not??!) are:

- image module
- img_assist module

These will allow uploading images easily. Download from drupal.org, unzip, untar into your modules directory. Then go to administration, modules, check both of these. Then make sure permissions are set properly to allow users to use these modules.

Drupal and crontab

So I was able to get crontab configured (thanks for the comment!). That is, I think... although I have no way to "test" the setting I made via plesk.

However, drupal also shows per-feed refresh settings in Drupal > Administer > Agreggator > Feed Overview | Edit > Update Interval.

Is this different than the crontab setting? The same? It's little things like this where you wish they just explained it in the UI.

The Ultimatum Game

Anyone who has taken a negotiating course or read "The Wisdom of Crowds" knows of the ultimatum game. In this game, there are two people, one of whom receives $10 to split between the two of them. This person makes a take-it or leave-it offer to the other person. If the other person accepts the offer, each person receives his part of the $10; if the other person rejects the offer, they both lose. In a perfectly logical world, the other person would always accept the offer, no matter how small, because he would be receiving free money.

Buying domains from their owners is an interesting example of the ultimatum game in real life. (It's not exactly the same, but pretty close). Existing domains are useful to people other than their owners for a variety of reasons - potentially easier to SEO, there may be some brand value (e.g. "good" names), the domains have existing traffic due to links to them on the net, etc.

Suppose that you make an offer to someone to buy their domain, and suppose that this domain is generating no revenue for that person or they are about to let it go for other reasons (they have no further use for it - company went out of business, changed names, etc.) In either case, the recipient of your offer, in the absence of any other better offers, would accept your proposal, since it would be free money for them. (There would be some intangible cost to the recipient, since they would need to invest the time to receive the money and transfer the domain to you.)

From personal experience I can tell you that all such recipients do not accept the offer. Why is this? I suspect it is because the same holds true in the real world as in the ultimatum game: the recipients of the offers don't want to feel like the buyers are getting too good a deal. Instead, these owners would rather let their domains go.