Our current referral system sucks. I think we first introduced it a few years ago and haven't revisited it since. I'd like to improve it such that when someone is on the fence about sharing SN, they are reminded they can make good sats from it.
the current referral system
Currently, if you refer someone, either by them signing up with an invite link or after visiting through a referral link, you get:
- 21% of any boost or job fees that they pay
- 2.1% of any zaps they receive
The problem with the system as is:
- few people use boost or job fees
- 2.1% of zaps for the average stacker isn't a whole lot
- we don't do a good job of making referrals or the earnings people get from them visible
a few random ideas we've discussed for a future referral system
- distribute some fixed portion of the daily rewards pool to referrers, e.g. 10-20%
- make a daily notification, similar to the rewards notification, for referrals which show how much you earned from referring for the day
- change the referral scheme to something new. e.g. if we're giving 20% of rewards to referrers:
- allow people to accumulate multiple referrers, e.g.
- 10% goes to stackers who referred someone for the first time ever, ie they are the permanent referrers for the stackers they brought to the site for the first time
- the other 10% goes to stackers who referred an existing stacker to the site for the first time that day
- make the referrer(s) of a stacker change every time they click a referrer link, i.e. a last referrer wins "game"
- allow people to accumulate multiple referrers, e.g.
- make every link to SN a referrer link (@ek's idea)
- every item page is implicitly a referral attributed to the OP of the item
- every profile page is implicitly a referral attributed to the stacker featured on the profile page
- every territory page is implicitly a referral attributed to the territory founder
- make the url bar display the stacker's referral link as they navigate through the site so that they don't have to make the referral link by hand or click the share button, i.e. make it easier to make a referral link than not
what do you want?
Stackers often have a way better mind for what SN needs than we do. SN is mostly a collection of ideas you all have had that we've implemented. Consider this a brainstorm where there is no wrong idea, and the more wild an crazy the better. Do you have any fun ideas for referrals?
I hope I will not reveal some algo secrets with this, but I found something funny and maybe useful for others on SN, especially for new stackers here.
Every morning I go to SN pool and hit the zap button. Once.
Then read the new posts from "all" and if I found something interesting I zap it.
You should be the first one doing that and you will see why later.
If there are already some comments, zap also those, especially those that weren't already zapped (if are good).
Also post a new comment in the new posts if nobody did it already. Of course if is really necessary, not just for the sake of commenting.
Go to Saloon and talk with the funny nemo. Not too much, otherwise will zap you like crazy ๐๐๐
Post a good meta that people are interested too and engage in discussions. Not just post and leave. Engaging will bring you more visibility for your post.
If you see that got more sats, go bacl to SN pool and hit that "donation" button again. You can do this anytime, many times per day. Don't worry are not lost sats, but contrary!
Do this all day, when you have time.
Then wait for next day. Surprise! Your initial "donation" to SN pool is back, sometimes even more than you expect.
Why?
Because all the sats in SN poll will be redistributed for your previous "activity".
As bonus, you have infinite cowboy hats!
Stackers, learn how to use SN...
I do not use SN to get rich... I don't need that, but all these SN sats I use them later to onboard many nocoiners, every fucking day.
https://m.stacker.news/17791
He was right and got convinced by scammers that he was wrong. Now he's butt hurt and wont admit it
Haha seems like bounties are the new "PRs welcome"
I really thank you for this weekly newsletter !
I read a lot of SN posts, maybe more than anybody here. I try to keep up with the regular feed (with no restrictions), but is hard.
But sometimes I get lost in the plethora of links and I miss quite some good posts.
Luckily there's this newsletter that bring back the good posts and I can go back.
It was yesterday. Groceries, at my mom's organic grocery store
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Oh, oh, I got late with posting this. Got too distracted with notifications and the Pay It Forward Initiative and then some more notifications.
I went for a run today. It took me 31:37 to run roughly 5km.
In German, we actually call it "joggen" not "rennen". I looked up if there is a better translation than "run" (since you don't really run if you try to "run" a long distance or for a long period of time). There is also "to jog" in English. But it feels like this is not used much? Is this more like a trap where you can notice if people use "to jog" that English is not their mother tongue?
Anyway. When I run, I don't try to run for a specific period of time. I try to run a specific route (with a specific distance) with checkpoints in mind.
I do this because I think it makes it easier to "not cheat" by just running very slowly. Anyone can "run" 30min+ if you just walk. Running a specific distance is therefore imo a good benchmark. This way, you can also make a competition out of this by measuring your time.
This always brings me to this question: What is the fastest way to travel a specific distance, therefore optimizing for least time? And what is the most efficient way to travel a specific distance; optimizing for least energy expended?
For example, if we keep the distance fixed, we can expend energy to travel the same distance in less time.
But when we start to target long enough distances (for example, 10km), it becomes obvious that we can't expend maximum energy all the time since we will get too exhausted. And then we will probably be a lot slower since we still have to travel a long distance even after all our energy is already depleted.
So what is the optimal speed for least energy expenditure? And at which point do you start to run as fast as you can to achieve your fastest time?
dwm