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290 sats \ 19 replies \ @k00b 8h \ on: POLL: Stacker News Slogan meta
My favorite atm: "Spend to say. Earn to stay." (We've been dumping a bunch of these in chat this afternoon.)
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark 4h
I like it actually
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0 sats \ 11 replies \ @Undisciplined 8h
I do not like that
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64 sats \ 10 replies \ @k00b 8h
why for
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0 sats \ 9 replies \ @Undisciplined 8h
Good question. It was a visceral response. Something about it hurt my brain.
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43 sats \ 5 replies \ @SimpleStacker 8h
How about "Come to earn. Stay to learn."
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31 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 7h
Following on k00b's point that it should be weird and frustrating:
Burn to learn. Yearn to earn.
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42 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 7h
One big beautiful Message Board, perhaps the best the World has ever seen
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 8h
Should those be switched?
Maybe not. That is the order that worked on me.
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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 8h
It could perhaps work with the order switched, but I think the "stay" part is usually meant to be more aspirational than the "come" part
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42 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 8h
Copywriting benefits from being weird like that. You might only remember a slogan for the pain it caused.
This slogan I have to read 10's of times to get comfortable with it. Every read digs its barbs deeper in my memory. Strangely, it makes perfect sense in terms of semantics and couldn't be shorter - it's just kind of a tongue twister.
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 7h
Good point. Enjoying it is less important than remembering it.
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42 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 8h
e.g. Trumps typos and misphrasings and factual inaccuracies are painful, but I never re-read a Joe Biden tweet 10 times to figure it out. I only vaguely recall Joe Biden having a presence on twitter as a result.
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @deSign_r 1h
people usually will not come if they know they need to pay to post, because the crowd will compare with what else is available and always pt for the cheaper or more convenient option. Why one shuld pay to post here and reach a niche when can do the same on X or r/ and reach the masses?
I'd probably keep all the payments and rewards working in the background... hide it. Let people post freebies but don't let them know it is as such and has less visibility. They will get it at some stage.
Same for the rewards, give it away to those that deserve it, but don't make it a public thing or a hook for predators to join the competition... it's more about collaboration.
Last, just visualize and present what today is named sats as zaps, karma or points... they are no sats anymore, and people get confused by the sybil fees anyway.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @028559d218 28m
This is what everyone said to ProtonMail when they said 'hey we're going to charge for premium email'...
'ya noone will pay for that it's already free.'
15 years later ProtonMail has 80 million users.
In other words people will pay where they find quality.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @deSign_r 21m
They did not have it so explicit in their slogan
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @028559d218 17m
I mean... it's not rocket science.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 7h
If we think it's better to not make it a tongue twister, we could do:
"Pay to post. Earn to stay."
Comparatively, it's boring, but it is explicit, brutally plain, and proposes a challenge.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @rootmachine 8h
This one is really good.
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