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Mission Statement: Create an improved user experience by providing a space for interesting or entertaining discussions or debates.
AskSN: It's not the Feature Presentation, it's the popcorn.
Montly metrics: Stacking: 4 (103.5k) Revenue: 10 (38.9k) Spending: 4 (179.8k) Posts: 9 (170) Comments: 3 (2812) AVERAGE COMMENTS PER POST: 16.54!
Right now, the most valuable metric to me is the comments and comments per post. Even though AskSN ranked 9th in total posts, it ranked 3rd in comments. That means I'm seeing some of the highest levels of engagement on SN, and It's something that I take pride in. I will not be adding a fee to reply to posts at this time, because I do not want to deter conversation, and profits are not currently my primary concern.
Although AskSN is not currently "profitable" through territory revenue alone, it is more than sustainable when considering my average zaps per post (513). My total for the month: 30755 (15528 after fees). My total revenue of territory plus zaps: 54450
Special thanks and 1k sats to @stack_harder for the highest zapped post Who do you think was the worst dictator in history? Special thanks and 1k sats to @cryotosensei for the highest amount of posts: 18 thank you for supporting the territory And Special thanks to @Aardark for making the only post all month that got zero zaps #871098. Your reward is shame, nobody cares about how many chickens it would take to kill an elephant moron.
Please @stack_harder and @cryotosensei reply to this post for your 1k zap.
Moving forward, I will likely continue to give rewards but based on different metrics. I won't award the highest amount of posts again only because it's easy to game the system by spamming. I also won't announce what metrics or awards I'm going to use/give because I'm a dick, and I don't want you to know ahead of time. Tune in next month to find out.
Tips for posting on AskSN: My most successful posts have been about topics that people want to talk about. So first think of an engaging topic, and then ask a question about it. Ask yourself what people are either passionate about, or what they have strong opinions about. My least success post are questions that have simple answers that don't require much thought.
Just loading up to make 1 post daily to win 1k ... But for shame,
won't award the highest amount of posts again only because it's easy to game the system by spamming.
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It's 30 attempt at getting that sweet sweek 1k though!
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30 attempts or 60, a win is always sweet.
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@javier garnered the most comments this month, so far - 69 hehe #889459 and I'm second after that - 61 #876146
you get comments when your original post has content in it, btw
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Nice but it wasn't my intention.
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You also made a splash on SN live. That's gotta be worth something right?
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did someone say 1000 sats?!
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šŸ¤£
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Yay! Just the thing to make my night
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Thanks for the support!
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You're doing great!
I love the idea of not disclosing what the metric is going to be. Ideally, there would be a way to document what your choice was, but the stakes are low enough that it's not important yet.
I've proposed that Stacker News randomize the rewards parameters, because that would prevent gaming the system and potentially teach us something, too.
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Well done šŸ‘šŸ¼
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Thanks!
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Good stuff!
Have you heard of @birdeye21, the legendary SN question-asker?
Tons of great discussions from his questions, maybe one day he will return: https://stacker.news/birdeye21/posts
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He was brought up to me once. šŸ˜€
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Wow, almost a year since their last item
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I also won't announce what metrics or awards I'm going to use/give because I'm a dick, and I don't want you to know ahead of time
In the spirit of hashing and preimaging a la HTLC, you could hash your policy and reveal next month, so that you don't get accused of corruption or cronyism (not that anyone cares about this nowadays, but still.) Like so:
% echo "Next month I will award only myself" | openssl sha512
SHA2-512(stdin)= da25ed39791e56012af96c69d578f7420976aad3e07af5afb2c57aab23de967701c1b913abd43c7ec0e6fffb5c269b010cefcbdf9f1c87a291e7c58bd65fb2b5
just publish the sha512 hash now and the preimage (text after echo) when you do the rewards ā¤ļø
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No, because that would prevent me from being corrupt or paying out my cronys, which is what I plan on doing. šŸ¤£
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You'd do really well on wall st.
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You also have to be smart to work on wall street, I assume. I'm dumb, so i may be better off in politics instead.
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @optimism 19 Feb
Just need to look smart.
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I guess that's out the window too then.
The Boris Johnson schtick. I like it. Act dumb to garner sympathy~~
Don't forget, you solved one of my super duper difficult puzzles with an answer no one expected ;)
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Haha. Lucky for me I don't need to act.
Nice job. Not a bad first month.
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Thanks!
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Excellent!! šŸ‘Œ
Can't believe it's been a month already
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I like that you misspelled your own nym in your post lol
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Haha. I did it on a notepad kn my phone over the course of a couple days. I guess that one got past me!
šŸ¤£
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @suraz 19 Feb
Yeah, this is going to be fantastic territory!
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Doing my best šŸ˜
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I expected to see more "askSN" with bounties not just random questions.
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