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560 sats \ 13 replies \ @grayruby 11 Dec \ on: Driving More Users To Stacker News meta
Great idea. I am not sure how many of us have a Bitcoin Talk account but I think you are on the right track here. I am going to add an SN link and referral to my Nostr account and the sports territory twitter account.
One of my focuses in 2025 will be how to better market the territory and SN more broadly. Ultimately we want more than just Bitcoiners to join the site but the fact that we can't even seem to convert the low hanging fruit users is puzzling to me. I don't think it is a problem with the site or the content, it is getting people to understand the value proposition and to try it out.
One way that I thought might work well and I briefly tested but admittedly didn't do consistently or enough is finding good posts on other platforms. Reposting them on SN and then contacting the OP on the other platform to say "I reposted this on Stacker News. It earned x amount of sats. I would be happy to zap them to you". I did have one person join SN that way but it wasn't as successful as I expected. Although, granted I only did it 5 or 6 times.
I appreciate you are thinking about these things and kind of spearheading our open source community marketing campaign.
I was actually going to make this same suggestion.
Perhaps hearing that their posts are earning real money will entice them over. Then again, if I knew what would draw people to SN, I'd be swimming in referral sats.
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I have had some luck with getting people to try SN but they don't seem to stick around. They make a post, get some sats and go. Or join a sports contest and when it ends not come back. It is kind of messing with my paradigm that we just need people to try SN and they will love it.
Maybe I have sold it to them in the wrong way. I need to give it consideration. But look at your Libertarian buddy from nostr. I twisted his arm until he posted on here and I haven't seen him post since. I don't expect everyone to be posting every day but figured they would become semi regulars.
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The ones who you've gotten to try, are they pretty active posters on other forums?
I think SN attracts a certain type of forum participant. I don't think it's great for lurkers, because you don't get the positive feeling of getting zapped for content. It's also not good for doom scrollers because SN isn't giving you the constant dopamine hit. The posts on SN tend to be something you actually have to read (not glance at) in order to extract value from.
I think it's really good for people who actually want to engage, but even then-only for a certain set of subjects that current SN users are interested in.
Yes, buyers remorse is strong in the noobies!!
We have to find something that is very interesting to them, too.
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One thing I am starting to do on Twitter/X is to reply to questions with relevant links to stacker news posts.
Not only does it answer their question but it also leads others to the platform.
I think I notice more daily referral sats when I do this too so it’s a win for everyone.
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This might work well. We just have to be making quality posts and replies.
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That's great. I'm with you.
There's a sea of thoughts I've inside me on this topic but I better be silent for now.
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