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36 sats \ 17 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 17 Jun \ parent \ on: This Day in Stacker News: June the 17th meta

Yeah, if you look at the analytics page, you'll see that the number of stackers and spenders has been declining lately.

Just now I was looking at the analytics, and a little more than 10 users registered today, I think it's little, I'm realizing that the people who zap are getting less and less, I zap like crazy but I don't see reciprocity sometimes, I've been in SN for 1 year, I'm not an OG, but I remember better times in terms of zapping.

82 sats \ 8 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 17 Jun

I'm really not sure what happened, but it coincided with MSM, which did rub a lot of people the wrong way.

62 sats \ 2 replies \ @riberet19 17 Jun

Maybe it had something to do with it... I also think that more posts related to zapping should be opened, to educate new ones, since zapping is one of the cornerstones of Stacker.news.

78 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined OP 17 Jun

That's what I was trying to do with this post: #561854.

I'm all for other people trying to reinforce the message.

41 sats \ 0 replies \ @riberet19 17 Jun

Those types of posts should be pinned.

78 sats \ 4 replies \ @carlosfandango 17 Jun

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51 sats \ 0 replies \ @riberet19 17 Jun

But what's the reason for drifting away, for bothering to change daily rewards for a couple of months? or because they liked that format and don't want to continue participating with daily rewards? I don't quite understand it.

46 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 17 Jun

Need to look at the active users stats for the year really

Yes, that's what I was talking about. It's actually pretty dramatic.

One note is that they made a tweak during MSM that was intended to discourage bots and other low-quality sat farmers.

92 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 17 Jun

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @riberet19 17 Jun

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58 sats \ 6 replies \ @grayruby 17 Jun

Did you compare to the trend from last year? I feel like the summer months were slow last year too.

92 sats \ 5 replies \ @riberet19 17 Jun

Yes, last year in June there were about 856 registrations, now we have more than half a month and we have about 300, we are going at a slower pace even though SN is larger than last year.

58 sats \ 4 replies \ @grayruby 17 Jun freebie

Yeah but how many of those were bots?

I do think SN needs to do a better job marketing and advertising and increase its presence on social media. I think KR did a lot of that stuff and there is a void now. k00b is trying to wear a lot of hats.

66 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 17 Jun

There was a lull in the spring and summer last year. My hope is that it is just a seasonal fluctuation. Obviously, it's too early to know that, but this did happen last year too.

20 sats \ 2 replies \ @riberet19 17 Jun freebie

How could I know that?

I suspected that KR left SN, I don't know what happened there.

16 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 17 Jun

It was more of a rhetorical question. None of us really know how many legit accounts were being created now or then. I see new people joining each day and only a few of them actually respond and zap back when you say "welcome" to them so I assume many are still bots or sats farmers.

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @riberet19 17 Jun

Probably many are bots, about that I have no doubt, every place on the internet is plagued by bots, and if they can in addition to that collect some satoshis, it is even more likely that the site will be filled with bots.