180 sats \ 43 replies \ @IamSINGLE 20 Sep \ on: Stacker Saloon
No Fun Fact Friday Today?
@grayruby
SN auto posts Fun Fact Friday now. I have been automated out of my job.
It will post at 10am CT.
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What 😯!!
Why not make everything automated? It gets boring when the bot watches over.
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Agree. I think this day on SN was better when @Undisciplined was posting it and the bounties are more fun when someone is engaging with each submission.
SN should just have an intern managing the SN account as a social media manager for a brand would manage various social media accounts and engage with the community.
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I also don't like making sudden changes to SN zaps and rewards system without asking Stackers. Yesterday's change felt me like anything can be on SN.
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I am not going down this rabbit hole. I debated with k00b last Friday. I don't want to make it a weekly thing. I don't mind testing a larger fee and see if it does a good job rooting out spam, which is a difficult problem. I think 30% is a bit high. It is nice for territory founders to get more revenue but also more to the rewards pool means daily sats distributions will be even more top heavy amongst the top stackers.
We will see how it plays out. It's an experiment.
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30% is really big it isn't good for pools. I was thinking to make a pool out of polls but it's like over now. If we choose other options over zapping, why would we create a pool on SN?
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It's still gonna impact. Zapping many 10k sats here certainly makes a huge difference on that day's reward pool. That's gonna be missing from now.
Last year, we went through different experiments with the rewards system almost every month. They got distracted with the wallet stuff, but the norm is fiddling with the rewards system.
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It shouldn't be. Every time they fiddle with the rewards system we see some long term stackers leave. For you it's a fun experiment. For me it is poor operational execution of a business.
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I would agree with you, if Stacker News were older. Because we're here on the ground floor, we're seeing the design take shape. Even if they had the right rewards system in place at one point, it may not be the right system once a major change like territories is introduced.
The only way to figure this out is by experimenting.
I had said a few times that I was concerned the territory financial model was untenable. There wasn't likely to be enough revenue to support territory rent and consequently there wouldn't be enough territory rent to support the site. This seems like it may address that issue.
k00b rug pulled and run with the sats :)
