50 sats \ 2 replies \ @cryotosensei 17 Apr \ on: A Case for More Events on SN meta
Excellent thoughts.
I organised two bounties before. My first bounty lasted a week, which got draggy because interest died off after the first day or so. I was employing my fiat mining mindset - but SN moves so much faster n more nimble than real life. The second bounty lasted for 48 hours - just right.
I think events are good as a whole but if we look at Fun Fact Friday, we can conclude that the zaps it generates for the various editions this year are less than the zaps for last year. I’m quite surprised to see how the participation hasn’t kept pace with the zapping. I think more so than events, we need to look at emotional resonance - making newbies feel seen n acknowledged so that they feel like they are coming to post in their home.
Is it too far fetched to pair one newbie with a seasoned Stacker for let’s say a month so that the latter serves as a buddy for the former? We can make it mandatory for the top 20 Stackers who win April’s MSM do this as a form of community service. Just throwing a wild idea here haha
but SN moves so much faster n more nimble than real life. The second bounty lasted for 48 hours - just right.
Yeah, the half-life of the average post on SN is pretty short since they compete with every other post for the global front page. They survive longer on the front page of their territory but the amount of eye balls is lower there.
I think events are good as a whole but if we look at Fun Fact Friday, we can conclude that the zaps it generates for the various editions this year are less than the zaps for last year
Maybe these weekly events got boring over time and they only attract newer stackers 🤔
Is it too far fetched to pair one newbie with a seasoned Stacker for let’s say a month so that the latter serves as a buddy for the former?
What would being a buddy mean? Compared to the buddies we find by hanging out in the @saloon?
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Happy to share how we engineer social interactions in Singapore.
For example, when a new staff member joins our school, he will be assigned with a buddy officially. This buddy’s job is to assimilate the newbie into life in the school. There are specific duties to be carried out by the buddy:
(Newbies are paired with mentors too, but this is outside the scope of this discussion.)
Another similar example would be Singaporeans going over to Japan under the Japan Exchange Teaching program. In the month before they depart for their new life, they usually get assigned to a buddy whose job is to ease their anxiety about venturing into the unknown.
We find people to talk to in the Saloon organically. My idea of buddy is appointing someone specifically who will have a newbie’s back for the first month or so.
It is a typical Singaporean way of solving problems hahaha ☝️
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