228 sats \ 33 replies \ @nerd2ninja 17 Jun \ parent \ on: This Day in Stacker News: June the 17th meta
Yeah k00b was actually zapping people 100 sats as a default zap amount in those days and everyone else was zapping 1 sat and I felt real brave because I raised my zap amount to 15 sats lmao
Yeah. At this point it's clear that few people zap a lot. The way to actually scale SN is to get more people instead.
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The push to get people from 1 or 2 sats up to 10 or 20 was pretty successful. However, getting people to go much higher has been like tilting at a windmill.
The problem with scaling is that we haven't been able to accomplish that either.
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You mean in number of users?
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Yeah, if you look at the analytics page, you'll see that the number of stackers and spenders has been declining lately.
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Just now I was looking at the analytics, and a little more than 10 users registered today, I think it's little, I'm realizing that the people who zap are getting less and less, I zap like crazy but I don't see reciprocity sometimes, I've been in SN for 1 year, I'm not an OG, but I remember better times in terms of zapping.
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I'm really not sure what happened, but it coincided with MSM, which did rub a lot of people the wrong way.
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it coincided with MSM, which did rub a lot of people the wrong way.
Don’t underestimate this. People seem to have drifted away. Need to look at the active users stats for the year really
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But what's the reason for drifting away, for bothering to change daily rewards for a couple of months? or because they liked that format and don't want to continue participating with daily rewards? I don't quite understand it.
Need to look at the active users stats for the year really
Yes, that's what I was talking about. It's actually pretty dramatic.
One note is that they made a tweak during MSM that was intended to discourage bots and other low-quality sat farmers.
Maybe it had something to do with it... I also think that more posts related to zapping should be opened, to educate new ones, since zapping is one of the cornerstones of Stacker.news.
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That's what I was trying to do with this post: #561854.
I'm all for other people trying to reinforce the message.
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Yes, last year in June there were about 856 registrations, now we have more than half a month and we have about 300, we are going at a slower pace even though SN is larger than last year.
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There was a lull in the spring and summer last year. My hope is that it is just a seasonal fluctuation. Obviously, it's too early to know that, but this did happen last year too.
How could I know that?
I suspected that KR left SN, I don't know what happened there.
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Even when I joined, the norm was still 1 sat zaps.
That may have even still been the case when @grayruby finally joined Stacker News.
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Yeah I'm like why is grayruby calling me an OG I've seen their nym around forever, but then I look and its like November 2022 and I'm May 2022 and I'm like well alright I guess I was on here for a couple of months before them....lmao
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I feel the same way. All of you who were already here when I started reading and posting feel like a different class of stacker.
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Well you picked up on the techniques pretty quick and improved on them.
I had a few well structured articles before, but I stopped because I need to actually build myself more lol.
Like I'm going to continue the altnet series....when I get setup demonstration done, which I can't do yet because I need to hit the books hard on RedHat for career reasons, but even then I think I might focus on learning flakes because I feel that's really important (probably more important than a hypothetical altnet that no one seems to have a need for right now)
Maybe I'll write an article about getting your shit together when you have too many ideas and not enough time to do it all lmao.
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Maybe I'll write an article about getting your shit together when you have too many ideas and not enough time to do it all lmao.
Haha. Make that a top priority.
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So if I've been here for 1 year and 1 month am I an OG? Hahaha, I'm just kidding
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lol
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