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The current Stacker News slogans (what is in the bio on X and nostr) are:
Reddit gives you upvotes. We give you bitcoin.
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Trying to fix online communities with economics.
Which of the following is the best update?
Pay to post. Zap to like.28.6%
Browse less, learn more.35.7%
Say something with value or GFY.14.3%
Less slop, more zaps.21.4%
28 votes \ 16h left
290 sats \ 16 replies \ @k00b 7h
My favorite atm: "Spend to say. Earn to stay." (We've been dumping a bunch of these in chat this afternoon.)
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark 4h
I like it actually
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I do not like that
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64 sats \ 10 replies \ @k00b 7h
why for
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Good question. It was a visceral response. Something about it hurt my brain.
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How about "Come to earn. Stay to learn."
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Following on k00b's point that it should be weird and frustrating:
Burn to learn. Yearn to earn.
Should those be switched?
Maybe not. That is the order that worked on me.
42 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 7h
Copywriting benefits from being weird like that. You might only remember a slogan for the pain it caused.
This slogan I have to read 10's of times to get comfortable with it. Every read digs its barbs deeper in my memory. Strangely, it makes perfect sense in terms of semantics and couldn't be shorter - it's just kind of a tongue twister.
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Good point. Enjoying it is less important than remembering it.
42 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 7h
e.g. Trumps typos and misphrasings and factual inaccuracies are painful, but I never re-read a Joe Biden tweet 10 times to figure it out. I only vaguely recall Joe Biden having a presence on twitter as a result.
people usually will not come if they know they need to pay to post, because the crowd will compare with what else is available and always pt for the cheaper or more convenient option. Why one shuld pay to post here and reach a niche when can do the same on X or r/ and reach the masses?
I'd probably keep all the payments and rewards working in the background... hide it. Let people post freebies but don't let them know it is as such and has less visibility. They will get it at some stage.
Same for the rewards, give it away to those that deserve it, but don't make it a public thing or a hook for predators to join the competition... it's more about collaboration.
Last, just visualize and present what today is named sats as zaps, karma or points... they are no sats anymore, and people get confused by the sybil fees anyway.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 7h
If we think it's better to not make it a tongue twister, we could do:
"Pay to post. Earn to stay."
Comparatively, it's boring, but it is explicit, brutally plain, and proposes a challenge.
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This one is really good.
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I like @Car's "The Front Page of Bitcoin". Even if it's not exactly true, it's true enough to not be false advertising.
If that's too bitcoin-specific, I'd go with something like, "Value-for-value online communities"
I think "Like Reddit, but we pay Bitcoin" is great for helping people understand what SN is, but I also think many people have a negative association of Reddit now
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The Reddit comparison is what peeked my interest, but ultimately I don't think SN's slogan should reference another site.
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I don't think SN's slogan should reference another site.
Yeah, I agree
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This one is a no brainer, @Car's living in 2030 and knows what's up
Automatically makes anyone in Bitcoin curious enough to at least check it out
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102 sats \ 0 replies \ @unschooled 6h
honestly, as great as these all are i feel you've done something really great with the cowboy/western theme and none of these really reflects this.
imho, you have a strong brand and the slogan should keep leaning into that.
the social frontier of bitcoin
we're not web 3, we're web free
yee-haw
prospectin' for bitcoin
fistfulls of bitcoin
where keyboard cowboys get paid in bitcoin
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I've wondered about something really simple like "Be heard"
What's the biggest point of dissatisfaction with the rest of social media? What's the most direct way to address it?
For me, the biggest frustration was low engagement (both qualitatively and quantitatively).
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30 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 7h
"Joakim Book bet good money on Prydx that we will die."
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Can we say something like
"real content pays off - in bitcoin"
That implicitly includes both the idea of giving and receiving zaps for good content, and each user will interpret it to the side of their interest. It also implicitly gives the idea that "being rewarded for real" is to receive bitcoin.
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40 sats \ 0 replies \ @deSign_r 30m
much better slogan
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Here's one that just came to me: "The Front Page of Bitcoin"
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Car already uses that all the time
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What are the odds?
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Stack Truth. Stack Sats. Stacker News.
I have 2 other few good ideas as well:
  1. Stack. Zap. Repeat. (made this while going to bed)
  2. Proof of Thought, Paid in Sats.
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Wasn't something like:
It's like Hacker News, but we pay you in Bitcoin
if you like to keep it as comparison, I like:
X = noise SN = signal
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stackerNews make spam unaffordable
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Come for the income. Stay for the outcome.
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Come to stack master the zap
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"Pay to post" probably scares people away. But it may also attract those who are really frustrated by the dynamics of social media elsewhere.
Also @DarthCoin says it a lot.
Have we considered "Make them pay"?
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Teach, Learn, Curate. Stack sats!
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