Thank you for treating my idea with such respect and giving of your time and energy to share your experiences!

I feel quite bad. Flushed by my excitement, I didn’t explicitly state the most important aspect of my idea: Publish an e-book.

After all, even kids these days can publish their e-book on the Book Creator website: https://bookcreator.com/. Why not us?

Messari publishes its Crypto Theses as an e-book every year. (https://messari.io/crypto-theses-for-2024)

Initially, I thought we could just use the Search button and surface 15-30 testimonials that Stackers had already left on this site. This will surely cut down on the work of managing authors. But I guess I was too naive. If I push on with this idea, I will ruffle feathers in regards to who gets included n who else gets excluded in the book. Haha

In my 20s, I used to patronise this poetry forum (https://piptalk.com/) a lot. The founder wanted to compile a list of the best poems from us members. So he initiated a submission period in which members could submit their best poets for consideration by other users. Iirc, members had a partial say in deciding which poems made it to the book. He would make the final call as the editor of the book.

Again, this will eliminate the work involved in managing deadlines. Though managing the submission period is gonna be a pain.

I guess it depends on whether enough Stackers believe that there is value in my idea. I do still have my (physical!) copy of the Piptalk book around