~charts territory launch + rewards \ stacker news ~meta

3782 sats \ 16 comments \ @kr 17 Feb meta

today i launched the ~charts territory.

it’s a place for anyone to post interesting charts and data visualizations they find.

there are no topic constraints, so don’t feel the need to keep it bitcoin-focused.

since this is a new territory, i figured it was worth experimenting with a new strategy for getting traction and incentivizing others to participate.

so, from now on i’m going to pay all of the sats i stack on SN back to the top posters and commenters on the ~charts territory every day.

perhaps if this is a successful experiment there is a way to productize the incentive system for other territory owners to reward a portion of their revenue to top contributors on their territory.

but since this is just an experiment, i’ll be doing this manually for now. i’ll decide what my favorite posts and comments are and how to distribute the sats, but every day i will be emptying my wallet (minus a bare minimum balance so i can continue posting each day).

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657 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 18 Feb

Good luck with this! It's an interesting experiment. I try to zap my contributors generously and also incentivize quality content with zapping. I look forward to seeing how it goes, and contributing when I can.

215 sats \ 0 replies \ @kr OP 18 Feb

will report back with any interesting results i discover 🫡

643 sats \ 2 replies \ @quark 17 Feb

I like the idea of data visualizations. Price charts not so much. Maybe it would have been better to name the territory something more generic like datavisualization perhaps? There is a risk that people would just use it for price charts technical analysis which in my opinion it gives people a false idea that one can forecast price and become a trader by just looking some charts.

81 sats \ 1 reply \ @kr OP 17 Feb

yeah good point.

i like the simplicity of the term “charts”, but if it starts to get over-run with price predictions i’ll change it.

i figured charts was a broad enough term to encompass most types of data visualizations. are there any other data visualization styles you like that fall outside the scope of charts?

626 sats \ 0 replies \ @quark 17 Feb

Charts is great, simple and good, but many people here would associate it first with a price chart. But that's only my guess. Let's see how it goes. Visual data, or data visualization may be easier to understand. Maybe infographics too. Or data graphs. I don't know. Just keep charts :)

605 sats \ 0 replies \ @riberet19 18 Feb

very interesting and relevant also since I have seen many people open threads related to data and graphics in other territories, so I think the territory will be a success

546 sats \ 5 replies \ @jeff 18 Feb

If only you could give SN an API callback URL, to configure this yourself. Sovereign. Less centralized. Hmmm...where have I heard that before(?)

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @k00b 18 Feb

Did someone write about that and I missed it?

100 sats \ 3 replies \ @jeff 18 Feb

Yah, I brought it up a couple times in the past -- but seems impossible for you to keep tabs on all ideas.

See the section called "Waaaay more control over zaps flow" in #412066.

The tl;dr of what I've written in the past is - a territory owner, should be able to standup an endpoint, that they give that to SN in config. Then, for every zap, the endpoint gets as much context for the zap as possible, and the endpoint determines the weights and destination for the zap.