Welcome aboard! I'm glad you're already seeing how special SN is.

When I started using Stacker News, I didn't quite get it. I was sharing links to anything and everything even remotely Bitcoin related: basically the same firehose approach that works on other social media.

I realized eventually that the high quality engagement is what's special here, so I started writing more comments and putting more thought into them. My early discussion posts were mostly me asking questions that interested me and that I thought people here would have interesting perspectives on.

Now, the communities become pretty diverse, so I'd recommend just writing about whatever you feel like writing about. Don't feel like you have to do anything in particular though.

To be among the popular ones read this

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Awesome. Glad you are enjoying it.

Write about whatever you like and are well versed in and most of all just have fun doing it. It's great to stack some sats but more fun to stack while having some fun with like minded people.

Haha! Am I the popular name here? I don't know about that.

Welcome! So glad to have you here! Please do contribute and share. If you're not dealing in 💩🪙s you'll find support, information, but also challenges to your perspective. I see this as a growth place. Not always comfy, but always positive.

Thanks for tagging me among these giants. Welcome to SN!

There are two kinds of writing: free writing (where you just write about a topic for 5-10 mins continuously without censoring your thoughts) and deliberate writing (where you slavishly labour over each and every word because you want to make a difference with your writing ~ leave a legacy, promote a cause, etc)

Note that your free writing posts may just generate more zaps than your deliberate ones because Stackers may resonate deeper with the former. You can’t exactly predict your audience’s response, which is what makes writing fun.

I think regardless of the form of writing you choose, the key thing is to be consistent. I shamelessly post something every day.

You just have to keep posting quality material. You can do it!

FYI if you're looking for what readers value, as judged by how much they zap a post, you can do some searches like the following:

That'll give you the top ranked posts for a specific month (change the parameters as desired).

Welcome! SN gets under your skin. The incentives have been properly set up to reward quality. As long as the maintainers continue to prioritize quality over quantity, that is, wikipedia vs reddit, then it has a very bright future. Admittedly, I still have not fully committed, but I know that when I have good ideas for write-ups that SN will get my best. Unlike OP, popularity is not what I am seeking. It's sharing knowledge. Always has been for me. But even if I engage with just one or two people here on a meaningful level, I will consider this a huge success.

bitcoin = multi-burrows. All those Burrows = SN Remember that those people you find on those social networks live mostly frustrated and asleep, hence the fact that you only find people spreading poison there (again, mostly). On the contrary, SN is full of other types of people, Awake People, educated, willing to help others, people teaching others, and the motivation of those who live in bitcoin is very different from those people who still do not understand it and continue wandering without encouragement or motivation through life, suppressed by the Fiat system.

The whole point of being potentially anonymous is to be able to be yourself. What you are asking is how to gain acceptance from everyone else. Screw all that. Just say what you have to say.