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Hello ~news stackers 👋
I've just received a strange SN deposit which had a message assigned to it aiming to pop/notify me with a suggestion to lower the cost for posting in my ~news territory.
In my opinion, the cost for posting in a SN territory is crucial for its lifecycle because it's at the same time important for gaining traction and popularity by making it accessible and affordable for users to create content in it but on the other hand it plays an important role as the only shield against spam and any other type of abuse so every territory owner should carefully choose it depending taking into account many factors like the importance and sensitivity of the topic(s) it covers, activity (most people would simply avoid some territories just because their post cost is too high) etc.
And as I take running my SN territory seriously, the only concern I have is whether lowering the cost would result in flooding the territory with spam and in ~news' case in attempts for disinformation and fake news. On the other hand, I want to listen to my territory users who did his best to politely ask me at least to reconsider the price so that's why I decided to create this poll and ask you for your opinion on the matter:
Leave it 100 sats76.5%
Lower it to 50 sats23.5%
Suggest other price0.0%
17 votes \ poll ended
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It's totally up to you, but I think 100 sats is completely reasonable.
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Thank you for your opinion 🙏
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i think 100 is find, anything less doesn't dissuade assmilking enough imo
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Does a lower fee encourage assmilking / low effort posts of mainstream news stories?
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Yeah I think it would mean exactly that. But it's my opinion - that's why I decided to bring it out to public discussion.
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I think your territory is doing fine at 100 sats. You have nothing to worry about and you run your territory well. Dont mind some random naysayer.
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Leave it at 100.
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Ignore this message; it's probably from the guy who's been harassing other stackers. 100 sats is totally reasonable.
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Really, I haven't heard about it. Who's this guy?
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He's a guy who will use sats to spam your territory. Obviously he's not appreciating the SATs he has or he'd rather spam 100 people.
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100 seems pretty standard...
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100 is good.
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This is of course your decision but I would suggest lowering it a bit because most of what is posted in the territory will be links to news articles. News should be a territory with 50 plus posts a day.
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100 is fine.
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100 is very reasonable.
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I want you to lower it 50 sats but only if it increases posts to your territory.
You'll have to do what you think is best.
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I really doubt whether lowering post cost to 50 sats will increase posts in ~news...
Are you the one that made the deposit with the message?
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No. I just stated that I would rather pay 50 sats because I'm cheap. I also only would want you to do this if it increased good content. In other words if you have 20 posts at 100 sats a day then that is 2000 sats but if you lowered to 50 sats and had 50 posts a day that would be a net gain at 50*50 = 2500 sats. So only if it increases your earnings. Not by cutting your throat.
AS the message does suggest by announcing a price reduction and your goal of increasing sales (posts) you might gain more traffic.
But here is a real deal with lowering prices. As sats increase in buying power people will be reluctant to post when they can do so elsewhere for less. You have to lower prices which hurts your original investment as you have an inverse mortgage. Unless of course you have a profitable territory. Eventually Stacker will have to lower the price for territories as bitcoin buys more.
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SN already lowered the territory rent fee
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That's good.
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