reply on: Driving More Users To Stacker News \ stacker news ~meta

pull down to refresh

0 sats \ 11 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 22h \ on: Driving More Users To Stacker News meta

Just my impression, but why in the world would you want Reddit inhabitants here? They seem a tad on the unstable side, don’t they? I gave up on Reddit a long time ago, after being involved in several flame wars.

43 sats \ 8 replies \ @Jon_Hodl OP 3h

but why in the world would you want Reddit inhabitants here?

Because there is a lot of talent on reddit but due to bad incentives, r/bitcoin has become a bit of a cespool.

r/bitcoinBeginners is still a great space to newer users to ask questions and get quality answers and they new have 1.1 million members in that sub. Users like BitUsher with over 100k comment karma (https://www.reddit.com/user/bitusher/) does a LOT of work to field questions all day but doesn't stack any sats from his responses.

This is a substantial opportunity for SN and @siggy47. We just need to find a way to create a sort of talent vacuum that draws all of the best posters, commenters, and zappers over here.

21 sats \ 4 replies \ @siggy47 3h

It sounds like bitusher could clean up over here

43 sats \ 3 replies \ @Jon_Hodl OP 2h

He absolutely could but we would need like 100k people over here asking all the low level Qs.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 2h

Are there really 100k users in that subreddit? I am also a refugee, but I escaped to SN in 2022

43 sats \ 0 replies \ @Jon_Hodl OP 2h

There's 1.1 million members in r/BitcoinBeginners and 7+ million in r/bitcoin

Might be worth looking into advertising your territory on r/BitcoinBeginners

You can search ads that have been displayed on reddit for "inspiration" https://ads.reddit.com/inspiration

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 2h

We have some work cut out for us, I guess

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 45m

Is the problem the same as with the third world inhabitants migrating to the first world? Don’t they tend to chang the first world countries into the third world? So, why bring a cesspool into SN?

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Jon_Hodl OP 34m

The problem with bringing the third world into the west is the fucked up incentives where they get free shit for doing nothing at the expense of the nationals who bear the tax burden. If they all had to pay to consume welfare resources, they wouldn’t come.

Stacker News is possibly one of the best free-market incentives I’ve ever discovered.

Pay to post keeps the spammers, trolls, and scammers to an absolute minimum.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 14m

I love it!!! I, also, think that ending all of the free sh*t for everybody is a spectacular Idea! That means no more civilian parasites, but still leaves the state as the big bloodsucker. If we could cut them off without getting shot in the back of the head, that would be great, too.