what is dead may never live (or something?).
I run these updates twice a month: at the end and at the middle of every month.
And for full disclosure: each time I shove some extra sats into the No contracts of @mega_dreamer's Predyx bets. (You can find those two contracts here and here)
Previous updates:
- 17 Feb: "Oh MAN, Are We Slowing Down! (SN Bet Update)" — #888487
- 1 Feb: "We Can Feel It In Our Bones! SN Slowing Down & Bet Updating" — #871820
- 15 Jan: "Zaps Failing, Fragility, and Bet Update" — #850716
For this first bet to come into fruition, SN needs roughly 1550 items a day. The daily rate when I first joined last year was roughly in the 1350-range; so not quite there, but with some growth not impossible.
Sadly and unfortunately (or totally predictable?!), that rate is down—waaaaaay down. First time I updated we were at 1,263 a day; then 1293; then 925; and for February as a whole we're at 1,006 a day. For the year so far we're at 1,157 a day.
(yey, we're better than first half of February!)
Let's just say these sats will be the easiest sats I ever earned!
Too bad @k00b hasn't seeded the bet with more than 25k.
The alligator mouth of my very-shitty-graph is really starting to open up:
(it's all slimy and curve because I plot down numbers in an excel sheet unevenly—several times a month, at different moments—and I can't figure out a good way to smooth the lines. I suck at tech, whatever.)
Feb 28 is the 59th day of the year (16.2% through the year). With 900,000 items—which I so sneakily/clutch stole!—we're about 12% of the way to the 1.4 million goal. Or a relative trailing of 25.7%.
So not only aren't we producing enough content to keep up, month-by-month, we're also slowing down! (the second derivative is negative): we used to be at 81% the goal; then 76% the goal; then 74%...
Gimme, gimme, gimme those easy sats!
Even though I'm posting frequently and doing my bit to grow SN (#899960), my money isn't where my mouth is!
