Oh, and yeah, the idea we find good new forum posters thru advertising, when we all hate advertising and block them … I agree with whoever said above, it needs to be thru content creation.
If you really want new members … How about an Unstiuck “fund” of sorts. Some way of aggregating consensus picks. This is what Unstuck is hot on … X coin, Y horse, Z stock, Cheney is out, Free money on Biden …
ETA: easily sharable graphic w the web address in it^^^
Weekly forum poll we publicize the results of through social channels.
If this was a thing it would work wonders I bet.
We seem to be losing guys at a regular clip. It’s gonna get lonely here before too long.
I said design but you know that.
Also, I am not assuming everyone here wants to do free labour when we have money.
Just stop with the petty bs and maybe try to contribute to the conversation.
This thread is so telling as to who is engaged in an exchange of ideas to better the forum and who is here to attack people and bring up old grievances.
Whether they use a razor and hot lather on your neck at the end of the cut.
I think the discussion here is orders of magnitude different than on Twitter or Reddit because the expectation is that it will be a back and forth with cited sources that will go beyond surface level shit.
Like 99% of discussion on Twitter, even the stuff that I find informative, is just like standing on a soapbox to scream for clout. There is no intention to address any criticisms of the viewpoint presented, and usually criticisms are shouted down by people without addressing them on their merits. It’s a large reason why lefty Twitter people get taken in by so many charlatans. (It’s also why keeed is high up on my secret poster rankings list, even though I think he’s very wrong about lots of things)
I feel more confident in my politics because I feel certain that you guys tell me when I’m wrong about something. Even when I’m actually right!
Yeah, this. We need someone of Dvaut’s caliber blogging etc original content imo. Mysteryconman springs to mind, or PocketChads activism etc.
You, member of the brit clique, cannot be serious.
online advertising doesn’t work
I don’t really get these comments, tbh.
First, I don’t think it’s true. Or at least it isn’t categorically true. We need to define “doesn’t work.” If you mean it’s an industry on the brink of collapse, sure. But that doesn’t matter to us. If you mean “advertising never draws eyeballs to things the advertiser and user both want seen/to see”… I mean that’s clearly false. We aren’t selling tchotchkes to seniors. We have something that is valuable. We just need to draw attention to it.
Second, the suggestion to instead have Dvault write content to draw people to the site doesn’t really make sense either. He or anyone else can do that too. Why does that prevent us trying other means as well?
I’m trying to break up the decision paralysis that is leading to no site at all. Let’s just do something. Looking for the perfect thing will lead to us having no thing at all.
If you’re volunteering, thanks! If not, then please don’t volunteer other people’s free labor. There’s nothing wrong with hiring someone to do a job.
I thought you were getting at how fiverr is trying to Uberize web development and if the site were going to pay someone to do something people should just directly find someone to who will do it.
We will suffer attrition slowly and die off. It is not sustainable.
why do you make everything so personal?
UP folks then engage with social media content on twitter, be it poll results, picks, etc. … one twitter thread a week gives a mini version of what fun and hot debate and terrible investing tips they can get on the site!
Sounds good! Does this mean you are OK with new users?
I’m not opposed, I just don’t really care. Or, didn’t. jmakin says this is an existential issue, ok. So we need new members. That’s some ideas. It’s going to be tough to attract political discussion right now,. It’s not what I pay attention to here anyway. But the things I mentioned – political betting, NFTs, stocks, digital horse racing, crypto, poker – could be packaged into a weekly “here’s what’s up on unstuck” graphic that if it caught someone’s inerest would in turn bring them here.
Give it a fucking rest.
Vote Trump
Man I am so out of the loop on all the weird shit that has been going on lately.