SN ~Music Pool (August 2024) — Pool Update and Reminder for September Pool

299 sats \ 17 comments \ @Coinsreporter 28 Aug Music

Hi ~Music Lovers!

How's the buzz! The SN ~Music Pool is running hit numbers as loud as it can! Listen! The first update is out about how all the standings are and how's the pool going. Beat is that, this is for August, the main pool is gonna start from September 01. We've already started to fill in the Prize for the main pool as @Turdinthepunchbowl generously contributed 2000 Sats for September pool!

We've only dived in the August pool on August 22 so we can only get 1 update for the week so far. The Billboard Hot 100 only gets updated weekly on Tuesdays. The standings after the rank shuffle are —

https://m.stacker.news/48562

@TheMorningStar, @memeverse and @IamSINGLE have been striked out because either of their song number has disappeared from the Billboard Chart.
@Turdinthepunchbowl has been exceptional with his pick of no. 67, that shoot up to no. 31 from 67 and gave him as many as 37 points. Congratulations! Here's the song— (I bet our old horses would love this song!)
@Athena @grayruby @TNStacker @suraz and @Public_N_M_E are still in the fray of ~Music. But there's a huge huge difference now between all of you and @Turdinthepunchbowl.
As the ~Music Pool Rules allow every stacker to edit and buy in, all of you (those who are striked out and those who are running behind) can still edit or buy in to have a better chance.

SN ~Music Pool (August) Prize Update: 3488 Sats as on today.

All Sats Zapped on this post shall also contribute towards SN ~Music Pool (August)

What's Next:

This beta (trial) pool is gonna run till next Tuesday when we get the next updated rank list on Billboard. The final results for this beta version will be out only on next Wednesday.

But, we gonna start main pool as scheduled from September 01. There shall be some tweaks with the rules are on their way, so stay all ears. Some of the things that I'm juggling around are —

Should we have a joining amount? If yes, how much?
How to ensure the maximum participation?
How to get @siggy47, @Undisciplined @k00b and @ek on board? (This one's the biggest one 😜)

So, that's it. Until the next update, keep listening 🎧 music and spreading 💕.

Thank you so much for your love and support to the ~Music Pool.

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124 sats \ 0 replies \ @Golu 28 Aug

Count me in for the September pool. Are you gonna create a different pool for different languages or it's just English? I love Hindi and Latin songs more.

17 sats \ 14 replies \ @dontforgetthekeys 28 Aug

I would like to donate for sept pool, should i wait until the sept 1 post to zap?

2013 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter OP 28 Aug

Thanks!

You can zap here as well! I'll add it to the September pool.

13 sats \ 12 replies \ @Coinsreporter OP 28 Aug

Thank you so much!

This is very much required as ~Music Pool isn't picking up like the ~Stacker_sports pools do!

What are your suggestions regarding applying a joining fees for the ~Music pool?

I'm personally averse to them.

38 sats \ 9 replies \ @dontforgetthekeys 28 Aug

My pleasure! I really enjoy starting my day by checking out @Public_N_M_E's daily posts. So happy to help.

as for the joining fee, I haven't thought about it. I wasn't planning on joining.

I can make some suggestions from things I've observed in this space, if you want them.

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @Public_N_M_E 28 Aug

Cheers keys 👊 I'm late to the party today so I got a lot to listen to and respond to today. But I appreciate you showing up everyday.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @dontforgetthekeys 28 Aug

all day eurrday 👊

21 sats \ 6 replies \ @Coinsreporter OP 28 Aug

Yes, please go ahead.

Also, why won't you join the pool?

100 sats \ 5 replies \ @dontforgetthekeys 28 Aug

I feel like I wrote a book here lol I hope this helps.

It didn't appeal to me because I don't listen to music on the Bill100. I never felt like it represented the music I liked, more like how much money a record label can spend. So the game theory is off for me. I would do better by choosing an artist I know is really popular with a big record label than just choosing a song I liked.

Which brings me to my suggestion:

look for a better leaderboard than the Billboard 100. It's different with sports because there is usually just one leaderboard, but music is all about people's mood, taste, mental state, and mostly the language they speak or like to hear. Bill100 is English + American centric, and mostly pop.
- I see others stackers
  - posting international songs on a regular basis, and as SN grows and keeps attracting more of an international crowd this will only increase.
  - posting more off beat artists than the one's on the on the bill100.
  - posting songs from their music era. ie 80s, 90s, 00s, etc.

All that said, I can't make a better suggestion for a leaderboard that includes these points. The intersection for gambling and music is also very limited. I can only think of one situation.

Which brings me to an actual idea (this is way more work but could be a hit):

build a SN Battle Of The Jams pool
- stackers enter the pool by posting a song with an entry fee (this is for a pool minimum, and should be as low as possible)
- everyone's song starts at zero/last spot
  - the songs move up the leaderboard by how many/much zaps it receives over the course of a week.
  - stackers stack sats in real time by their song being liked by others, which brings in more curations and engagement. sats moving around.
- at the end of the week you can have 1 winner takes all or top 3 winners split some varying % of the pool.
more gamification:
- create a daily post with updated leaderboard stats. referencing the entry comment for each song on the list.
  - keeps original post fresh and active, more sats for votes
  - gets more stackers aware of the event
  - gives you another way to get more sats for your work
- once a month you can have a themed SN.BOTJ - highlight a genre, time period, or a location/langauge from around the world to include more stackers.
- once a quarter you can have a bigger buy in pool for the all the previous winners go jam to jam.
what's in for you? idk, hopefully you love music lol
- take a % and split it between some going to ~music to help pay for the space and some to you for organizing the events
- accept donations that fund both of those
- maybe the zaps on your posts will be enough

21 sats \ 4 replies \ @Coinsreporter OP 28 Aug

Thank you so much! This is a great suggestion!

I started with something similar you suggested #650068. But, it was just that I couldn't come up with better idea for daily engagement and also I thought it might be better to involve some gamification to the pool, I revamped the pool and applied Billboard.

Now, definitely after listening to your views/idea, I've got every clue what and how to do a ~Music Pool.

That's why, I took this August time as a grace period. I didn't go with the main pool. You can see I've been asking for suggestions in every post about it.

Here are a few things, I couldn't get though?

SN Battle of the Jams?
SN.BOTJ?
What would be better to decide the winner/winners? Would it be the number of Stackers that zap or the number of Sats zapped on a particular song entry or decide it by the TOP filter?

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @dontforgetthekeys 29 Aug

I thought more about the sats amount vs the zaps amount. I think you are right, the winner/s should be based on the quantity of zaps. 1sat one vote.

or a mixture of the zaps amount and sats amount. I do think the entry should be as low as possible tho.

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter OP 1 Sep

Thanks! I'm gonna lauch it today.

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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @dontforgetthekeys 28 Aug

I'm glad you appreciated the suggestion.

I should have clarified better. Stacker News Battle of The Jams or SNBOTJ is a play on battle of the bands. Bands battle each other and the winner gets a prize. a jam is slang for a song. So stackers battle each other for the best song submission.

I would rather the winners be based on amount zapped. in the end that's all that matters.

Good luck!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @dontforgetthekeys 29 Aug

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32 sats \ 1 reply \ @Public_N_M_E 28 Aug

~Music is a different beast. It's not a money maker at all. Trust me on that one, the territory doesn't come close to floating itself. Sports and gambling are quite synonymous, music and gambling much less so. The pool just like the territory is going to need to be something you do because you want it. I'm unsure fees on the pool will take off and I think they'd probably have a detrimental effect overall to the participation in the pool.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter OP 28 Aug

Thanks for the suggestion!

I agree on all your points. Let's see, where we get to with the Billboard Hot 100 related pool. Asz I've announced it, for September I'm gonna give it a go before deciding to alter or completely revamp it into something @dontforgetthekeys has suggested.

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheMorningStar 28 Aug

Can't believe I'm out! I'll now take part in September pool.