Territory owners should be able to post in their own territories for free \ stacker news ~meta

Territory owners should be able to post in their own territories for free

4706 sats \ 16 comments \ @needcreations_ 5 Feb meta

We are responsible for trying to promote our own territories with posts and we pay 100k sats to SN each month. One of the perks should be that we get to post for free in our own territories (with no 10x increase within 10 minutes too). Ain't nobody got time to wait 10 minutes when trying to bring engagement to their own territory, The owners aren't going to spam their own territories with pointless stuff, so we don't need to be rate limited.

I opened this as a feature request on the SN GitHub so please support this idea if you are in favor of it. https://github.com/stackernews/stacker.news/issues/787

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442 sats \ 0 replies \ @030e0dca83 5 Feb

I'm totally agree. I'll eat in my restaurant "for free", in the end just subtract it from income

449 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 5 Feb

owners aren't going to spam their own territories

Is that a certainty? My understanding is that those limits are partly about avoiding spam as something that irritates users, but also to avoid it as something that can actually harm the site's functionality. Maybe @ekzyis can expand on that thought, I could be totally off base.

428 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 5 Feb

but also to avoid it as something that can actually harm the site's functionality.

Nah, that's not part of it. That is a champagne problem. We can't prevent this from happening. With more users, more requests will come. We just need to scale our database up (like we did a few days ago). Limiting individual users because of this wouldn't help.

So it was only to discourage spam / encourage posting good content.

546 sats \ 1 reply \ @needcreations_ OP 5 Feb

regardless, I don't believe owners paying 100k sats a month are going to spam enough to do harm on purpose. Maybe implement some code to prevent 10 posts in 1 minute or something like that.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 5 Feb

I hear you. The value proposition on territories needs to improve and these ideas seem like pretty low hanging fruit.

468 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 5 Feb

I agree, or at least it shouldn’t escalate. What priority do you give this request relative to others?

405 sats \ 0 replies \ @harrr 5 Feb

I never knew that you have to PAY to run a territory. What kind of incentives does that create, who would pay to publish content? Advertisers. Having people pay for territories doesn't build a community, it creates incentives for external people to generate revenue on this site. I realize some die hard fans might pay for their own territory, but those will be the exception long term.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @lunanto 5 Feb

You own it but you don't really own it

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Alby 5 Feb

Agreed! Incentives in this model don't make us want to extend on ~apps, for example

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kurszusz 5 Feb

Agree with you 100%! I upport your initiative!

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @nullama 5 Feb

I would vote no to this.

Everyone should have the same rules for posting.

Creating a territory gives you control of that area of SN. You shouldn't have the ability to spam it.