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Greetings, Stackers!

First post here, and I've got some quick introductory thoughts to share.

As a 100K+ Reddit karma whore, I've never been more confident that the time for disruption in the long-form/forum niche is now.

As someone who's been active on Reddit for over a decade, I can confirm this sentiment is rapidly growing among the hundreds of millions of active users, especially since their disastrous shitcoin experiment imploded a few weeks ago.

Very excited to learn the ropes, and join the fight to progress mass SN adoption with you all!

Keep calm and stack on 🤙⚡️

-BW https://m.stacker.news/4733

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damn 100k+?

13k/33k karma whore here... welcome to SN!

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Yes indeed 😆

GME shitposting in 2021 was a free ride to the karma heavens lol

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haha nice... did you ride the /r/wsb GME train? I remained on the sideline but it was a wild and hilarious to watch...

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Great stuff. So when you deleting your reddit account? 🤣

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I think I'm going to keep it to use as marketing tool to funnel Redditors over here. Similar to how I use Twitter exclusively to shill Nostr now lol

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Makes sense. Just teasing. Great to have you here!

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Ahaha, fantastic use of Twitter.

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Welcome to sn ⚡️

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Stoked to be here! Hope you had an awesome weekend RB

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Welcome! You're off to a good start.

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I don't know what a cowboy hat is and at this point I'm too afraid to ask

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Just zap and all will work out.

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Wise man.

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Now you are already on your way to get 100k+ sats ;)

You can actually buy things with those. Like coffee or beer.

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it's true. i was really surprised how quickly i stacked 100k here. especially since i don't post that much. i mostly zap stuff, and hang out with the sports fans and degenerate gamblers in the ~meta threads

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What's the deal with the Meta category? Is that basically "Other" where you put anything that doesn't fit the other subs?

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i believe it was originally supposed to be for site discussion, feature requests, and stuff like that. recently @k00b has been promising more subs are coming, so in the meantime people will post "meta takeover" stuff if the sub doesn't exist. i think @grayruby started it for the sports discussion and nfl survivor pool, but there's a few of them now

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Awesome! Looking forward to keeping an eye on new developments!

Curious if these plans for sub-expansion will eventually call for moderators?

I modded a few subs back on Reddit, but the problem always was that there was no incentive to really do a good job, since all you got for the hard work was "karma".

Perhaps ⚡️ will fix this by incentivizing mods via sats? Or is the idea of "mods" shunned here in favor of ⚡️-voting being enough of a moderator in itself? @k00b

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Dreaming of my first StackerNews ribeye...🥩😍

https://m.stacker.news/4749

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welcome. i'm a reddit refugee as well

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It's instantly proving to be more fun.

Do you know any good resources that give a general walkthrough of how to make the most of the site?

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here's a good one from @Natalia

#252695

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Awesome, appreciate the rec! Will dig in tomorrow.

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for sure. you can ignore the stuff about how to link photos though, that was written before you could upload pics directly

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Speaking of uploading pics...is there any shortcut for searching/adding GIFs within SN? Or is everyone just googling/right-click-save/adding via the pic upload button?

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you can still link pics/gifs, but you can also upload directly with the little icon on the top right of the comment box. you can also preview the comment, to see if the link/upload worked

edit: the faq has more info #349

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is there any shortcut for searching/adding GIFs within SN?

There is not. Is there on reddit? Then I never realized, lol

Or is everyone just googling/right-click-save/adding via the pic upload button?

Yep, I believe so

When a Reddit karma hoarder like you say Reddit is dead then I will believe you. Stacker News is where reward come in the value you bring and take

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The coffin nails increase by the day. Word is now out they're making a big push to IPO, so naturally they're gutting it of cool features and corporatizing/censoring more. Very hopeful this will spur more folks to migrate over here.

https://m.stacker.news/4771

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We will welcome them with open arms.

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Shitposters were born to be together. https://m.stacker.news/4775

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I love it when they get wreck and come running to Bitcoin

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Welcome!

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When I had a low level English I used pikabu (where I first time discovered and first time ignored Bitcoin). Later I used Reddit and it gives more precise information than simple google engine. Lately I discovered Stacker news and I'm exited about it. Team gathered the best practice here, killed spam, etc

Hope this place will become something incredibly huge

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Love it 👏

Excited to continue learning and becoming part of the community here!

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What happened with their shitcoin?

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Crashed and burned of course lol. So stupid 💩

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Hey Ben and @k00b,

CoinOS is interested in AMA. The first one didn’t go so well because I didn’t coordinate with Ben and k00b

Coin OS is on telegram if you need to reach them. Let me know how I can facilitate

Thanks

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Just sent them a message from the SN handle on X so we can get something set up! Thanks for the ping 👍

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Did they respond on x?

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Yup! We're working on finding a time now, looking like next week

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thanks

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Karma is a fiat social currency.

Lightning/zaps is the real deal.

Welcome, refugee!

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Brilliant. That deserves a share 🔥

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reddit, facebook, instagram and youtube are dead

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Stacker news is fantastic! Another great tool built in top of the hardest money ever created

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https://m.stacker.news/4750

No one is a bigger karma whore then me 😆

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I get what you mean. I used to post religiously on r/cc and still comment occasionally on r/ethtrader. But the more I spend time on Stacker News, the more I want to divert my time and energy here to benefit from real conversations and authentic people and astute insights. Welcome!

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very true lets get adoption higher and keep promoting

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The council of Bens internet takeover continues to strengthen

https://m.stacker.news/4769

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A twitter follower I see! 👋

I love how you have your bio organized. Going to bookmark that for future upgrades on my own 🔖

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