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395 sats \ 4 comments \ @ablunderfilledlife 8 Mar meta

Note: I am not pitching this function. I'm asking what you believe it would do to the behaviors on SN.

I have noticed that a good number of stackers I enjoy are posting at 2AM and 4pm my time. I believe they are good distances away, so I expect they are posting these top of the morning their time. These posts have earned 3k stats by the time I wake up, which suggests there are readers in their timezones or timezones wrapping up the day.

What would it mean for SN to allow users to delay their posts for a specified time? For the sake of argument, let's say SN limited the delay duration between 1 to 12 hours.

Initially, I imagine it would open up the following opportunities:

I could cater my posts to users in different time zones. For instance, I might want to post pedagogical (teaching theory and practice) content for those in the Singapore area.
Those sats-farming turbo posters could target the peak posting times.
Those still suffering the burdens of the fiat rat race system can still participate with those partying between 9 and 5.
Someone would claim the fame of writing fancy code that figured out how not only to charge people but inform them of the extra charges for too many consecutive posts.

What do you think would happen?

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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek 8 Mar

Note: I am not pitching this function

I think you are asking for scheduled posts which is on our roadmap that is more like a distributed ledger in the head of every stacker instead of a map/flowchart

Someone would claim the fame of writing fancy code that figured out how not only to charge people but inform them of the extra charges for too many consecutive posts.

I don't understand. What do you mean? Do we not already have code that does this? Per post within 10 minutes, the cost is raised by factor 10. So if first post did cost 1 sat, the second post within 10 minutes costs 10 sats, third post costs 100 sats etc.

For example, after this reply, it shows that my next reply to this post will cost me 10 sats:

https://m.stacker.news/19428

What do you think would happen?

We'd get more posts at specific times

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @ablunderfilledlife OP 8 Mar

That's exactly what I am talking about!

Regarding the rising price for consecutive posts--would you want to prevent or disincentivize somebody from prescheduling a bunch of posts 11 minutes apart?

It comes does to, would you want to apply that increasing cost to the difference between submission times and and publication times?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 8 Mar

Regarding the rising price for consecutive posts--would you want to prevent or disincentivize somebody from prescheduling a bunch of posts 11 minutes apart?

Mhh, I guess the normal spam fees should apply. So scheduled posts should behave the same as if you didn't schedule them. I think that's also the most intuitive.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln 8 Mar

Lots of good content gets posted while I'm asleep. So, unless it goes to hot, I am probably missing out on a lot when I do my morning browse. The current hours are quite calm for me, not much content is being posted. It's good because I get less distracted, it's bad because new users might think SN is kinda dead at the moment. I expect this to even out as more people outside of the US start using SN.

For this last point, an auto-translate mode such as with some NOSTR clients might be useful... yet another feature-request ;)

To answer your question, if it were to exist, I might experiment with it. But not sure I'd go as far as actually timing my posts. If I have something good to share, I probably just want to get it out there. I trust people in my timezone to upvote it if it is any good. Less competition too, maybe ;)