Welcome to this week’s newsletter. Well, I’m trying to find the words to describe this past week in the territory. It was really bad. Terrible. The top posts were good, but they were zapped so little there was hardly any competition. I thought bringing back the old contest would liven things up around here, but no. Maybe I should send out a reminder post until everyone realizes the contest is back.

Anyway...

Starting this week I have brought back the Top 5 Posts Of The Week contest. Here are the details:

There will be a zap award for the top 5 posts weekly. It will be broken down as follows:

Posts will be judged using SN zaprank. The cut off time is 9:00am EST (1300GMT) Friday morning. I will post the top 5 winners shortly after 9:00am every Friday morning.

Everyone knows about the white paper, but have you read it? Here is the pdf.

DarthCoin is a somewhat controversial figure with a manner that may take some getting used to, but I think his guides are excellent as step by step instruction. The sentence structure might be unconventional, and he may express some strong opinions, but you will learn what he has set out to teach you. Here is a link to DarthCoin’s Substack Page, where you can find all of DarthCoin’s guides: https://darthcoin.substack.com/

@Radentor posts some of the most comprehensive information a beginner could want. Here is a link to his posts. I expect more from him soon!

Here you will find a few of the top posts that have been posted to this territory. I am not going to adhere to a rigid zaprank system, since my purpose is to highlight content that has educational value. I will use an informal combination of zaprank and my own evaluation. For instance, some posts, though of high quality, are solely about Stacker News, and might have more appropriately originated as a meta post.