herein lie the creative musings of stackersherein lie the creative musings of stackers

07/18/2025 --

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To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man—the mystery, the power, the freedom. Drawbacks I saw none. You have only to think! And I, a shabby, poverty-struck, hemmed-in demonstrator, teaching fools in a provincial college, might suddenly become—this.
― H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man

Is SN, or rather the community here, transcending magic?

REMINDERREMINDER

to submit your entry to the BEST UNDER 400 contest this week (or try out your ideas for feedback below).

final notefinal note

SN started humming with enthusiastic writer’s/creators in the last week or so (#1040070 #1043076). pen + paper bitcoin summer is happening and i’d love to get ideas from other stackers on how to promote this.

I wondered whether @car @deSign_r or @Jon_Hodl @siggy47 @AGORA had any creative ideas wrt ‘PR’ for SN. anyone else with an opinion, for that matter, please feel free to chime in.

I’m new to the territory thing. what has worked in the past?

I was thinking of making a bounty for a posters/memes to share on nostr, but I’m hesitant to pledge sats in this way without there really being an objective way for me to judge such work. is it better to commission a designer. are posters for social passe?

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204 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 18 Jul

Here's a few things I've learned from doing the Word of Mouth Wednesdays:

most of my bounties have promoted attempts at high impact (with relatively little success). I wonder if it wouldn't be more fruitful to focus on volume: smaller bounties that go to a larger number of stackers for posting (eg 100 sats to first ten stackers to post a sn link or meme on nostr...)
Contests are good advertising. We should all post about the many different bounties on SN more regularly. (Also, I always have to remind myself of this, but you can view all active bounties on SN at https://stacker.news/recent/bounties?active=true)
Repetition. I'm probably repeating myself, but I think we could all post SN stuff on external channels more frequently without being irritating.

Love what you are doing!

102 sats \ 0 replies \ @billytheked OP 18 Jul

eg 100 sats to first ten stackers to post a sn link or meme on nostr...

I like this a lot. I'm not sure if you were getting at this, but I would raise you 100 sats for each share, if this is something you wanted to do to promote the writing contests.

your feedback and engagement with my posts it is very "high impact" to me. thank you

68 sats \ 2 replies \ @Car 18 Jul

Ya I actually might have something soon to share on stacker muse reoccurring. Going to try to record this Sunday. Will see how it goes. Really wish we could crosspost already.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @billytheked OP 18 Jul

oh a recording you say, how intriguing!

45 sats \ 0 replies \ @Car 18 Jul

ya its something i have been contemplating to do for a while now, think some people could get use of it, since i already do it anyway on sundays it be good to see it post on here

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @billytheked OP 18 Jul

just reading this post about Friendship in more detail, as, last sunday, i'd been distracted when it was first posted:
#1037638

i love this, especially,

who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine -- a possession for all time. [...] and thus we weave social threads of our own, a new web of relations. (emphasis mine).

how cool! and:

By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself, I find them, or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of individual character, religion, age, sex, circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @deSign_r 19 Jul

My experience with bounty has been a failure, at least until now! Not sure is due to the way I present it, my poor writing skills dealing with contents, or simply because the right audience isn't here yet?

Techies usually understand design as cool Ui, but isn't just that and that's the whole gal of ~design. I started from creativity too, as expression of thoughts and intelligence through beauty and functionality. And we have five (or 6?) senses to perceive it all!

~Design is part of the creative process, not simply the nice outcome our eyes gratify with. It could also be present in this initiative you are planning, if you like to! This article may help to inspire its strategy and don't let it be just forgivable spam #1045346

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @billytheked OP 18 Jul

have been working on these. Enjoy!

#1044501

#1044448