I dug it up: #506806
I was overthinking in my response. All a stacker needs to know is "I share links and get sats."
Your idea prevents gaming the timing of someone clicking on referral link too.
Here's another post from kr a few months earlier: #259322
@sorukumar shared an article that I missed.
I forgot about @kr's suggestion to use "last person zapped". I like that, too.
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We could even make it compatible with your idea and @ek's idea.
Any action/appreciation you inspired in another stacker, earns you a share of their referrals.
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From the article, it sounds like maybe SN referrals are working about as well as they can be expected to.
Expect less than 10% of your users to convert a successful referral.
Also, they recommend having a data scientist involved in the planning, although they don't say why exactly. If you figure out why you should have one, I volunteer my services.
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Given how little time we've put into referrals, if we're already achieving 10%, we should be able to do a lot better.
I don't know why we'd need a data scientist yet but I volunteer to let you volunteer.
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