21 sats \ 28 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 18 Oct \ parent \ on: Zapping More Might Solve Our Leader Board Wizard Issue meta
Also, as SN grows, there will be more people around the clock. There are still only about 300 people active on any given day.
that's why will be nice to have in the top ticker the option to see how many stackers are connected at that time.
reply
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.
reply
It would be nice if there was a green light to show you are active.
reply
What is “active”? Some folks just leave the tab open permanently, are they active?
reply
That's what I was getting at. It would probably just be something like whether the person did anything in the past 10 minutes.
reply
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.
reply
I don't think SN is that invasively monitoring our activity. You'd have to do a SN thing like zapping, posting, or clicking on a link.
reply
I’m glad the SN doesn’t monitor too closely. That would make it an appurtenance of Big Brother. Then I would not be here at all.
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.
reply
Good point. Some sort of short timeline that gives enough time to read, but still boosts visibility.
reply
How much do you need to boost visibility? It seems to me, either people are on the board or not. You can determine who you are interested in posting or commenting to by looking at the recency data.
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.
reply
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.
reply
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.
reply
The fee is great for discouraging bots and downzapping helps a lot too.
reply
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.
reply
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.
reply
Would you be able to see if your post or comment was downzapped? And can you still see the outlawed posts if you wanted to? Sometimes I could see people getting downzapped for being politically incorrect or triggering some of the other members. Sometimes, the outlawed posts may be interesting in themselves, if even controversial.
reply
You cannot see if your posts or comments were downzapped. Several people have requested to be able to see that.
If you enable Wild West mode in your settings, then you can see outlawed content. I had it on for a long time, but the outlawed stuff really is just spam most of the time. Maybe someday we'll have more interesting outlaws.