33 sats \ 38 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 18 Oct \ parent \ on: Zapping More Might Solve Our Leader Board Wizard Issue meta
I understand that completely. Unfortunately, late is when I have the chance to post. I cannot do it early enough to catch my audience. I will just have to live with it.
There have been talks about allowing people to schedule when their posts should get posted. This might become a reality once the devs have time again after the attached wallet implementation madness comes to an end...
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Yes, scheduled posts sounds nice, however, there may be collisions on posting.articles. Comments are fine but there are some articles many people are interested in posting. For instance, there’s more than one Austrian economist on the board.
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There will likely be more duplicates in such case, indeed. Good point. But more often than not, people favor the one that was posted first, so the second one (from the poster who tried to optimize posting time) will disappear into oblivion. That's the risk one takes by not posting immediately.
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Perhaps it will depend on which comes to the top of the recently list. I think people go for the top of the recent list and post to the first one they come to. In that case, posting later is to your advantage.
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Yep, you've scooped me on a few Mises articles. I always zap people who beat me to posting an article.
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So, sometimes posting later is advantageous! It depends on whom is reading what. And as our friend @DarthCoin says, “some things are just garbage”.
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Sometimes I do this, when I am bored:
- open SN in the morning, taking a coffee and read all the previous replies. Some of them I will zap. Some don't.
- then I read the latest, from "recent". I zap few sats to those that are interesting and I need to come back reading more and see the comments. Is like my personal mark. later I can zap more if is necessary.
- then if I finish to read all the recent (I have like 50% of territories muted so I do not see those) I go to "random" that will show some old posts too. Some of them that I missed. So I go and zap those if are interesting.
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This looks like the pattern newspaper readers use. However, modern newspapers are only good for lining cat’s sleeping cardboard boxes. Just my opinion of MSM and modern newspapers. The local newspaper has earned the sobriquet “The Red Star”.
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Also, as SN grows, there will be more people around the clock. There are still only about 300 people active on any given day.
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that's why will be nice to have in the top ticker the option to see how many stackers are connected at that time.
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That is a cool idea. I would appear to always be here, though, since I just leave a tab open for SN.
Something like active stackers in the past 10 minutes might be a good proxy.
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It would be nice if there was a green light to show you are active.
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What is “active”? Some folks just leave the tab open permanently, are they active?
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That's what I was getting at. It would probably just be something like whether the person did anything in the past 10 minutes.
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Yes, there are also the “mouse jugglers” that people use at work to leave the impression of activity. It seems to work, until they get caught at it and fired.
You may want to leave it open for a little bit more time. Some of the articles are a long read. If it takes 15 minutes to read and article and decide it is worth posting, you would be off the ticker. Howeever, what there is now seems to be working fine.
Do you think that just letting it grow organically, on its own, is better or do you think marketing it would work better? SN reminds me of an earlier board, FIDOnet. But that was before the Internet.
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The site's still being built, so I think slow organic growth is fine for now. As SN becomes more polished, marketing will become more important.
Also, the way SN is decentralized through the territories means each territory owner can undertake their own marketing strategy. For example, the ~Stacker_Sports podcast we just started.
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My thought was that organic growth would be the best way to go. You probably wouldn’t pick up lots of bots and NPCs that way. Having a fee requirement is also a plus for discouraging bots.
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The fee is great for discouraging bots and downzapping helps a lot too.
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What is downzapping? I think I have zapping down but I haven’t seen or heard of downzapping. Could you explain, simply. I think I can understand the meaning from context but doing it would be a different matter.
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In the same way that zapping is analogous to an upvote, downzapping is like downvoting. If you click on the three little dots next to a post or comment, you'll see the option to downzap that item.
If enough people with enough trust downzap something, it will become "outlawed". Outlawed items are substantially less visible than normal content.
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