My ideas for fixing Saidit

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[–]no_u 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (14 children)

Yes, though I'd add:

Every individual user who wants to moderate a sub should PM u/Magnora7 with a request to moderate the sub, and give as evidence their post and comment history that they have behaved in good faith at Saidit. They should ask him on the weekends. This is because he's obviously not had the time to develop a broad plan for new mods and admins. What I've seen in the past year or so is that he'll consider individual requestions. And if the first proposal doesn't work, try again in a few weeks. What Saidit needs, /u/LarrySwinger2, is enough people who want to add posts and serve as mods. When D3 added mods a while ago, there was renewed activity, but it was not sustained, because not enough users here bother to upvote posts and get engaged. If posts are more interesting and more users are interested in them, I think that's what will help the most. (And agreed - mods have to be willing to remove the spam more often.)

[–]Musky 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (13 children)

This place is fucking dead unless we have a dev to maintain it.

u/x0x7 might be willing. I know m7 is super reluctant to trust anyone but the dude is solid and it can't be worse than D3, who I kinda suspect broke chat on purpose because he was drunk.

[–]no_u 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (12 children)

Perhaps an asksaidit post in due course nominating u/x0x7

[–]Musky 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (9 children)

I don't know it'd amount to anything, on paper this site is evaluated at almost $150k and M7 doesn't really know any of us enough to trust with that.

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    [–]Musky 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

    Elon Musk paid $44bn for Twitter and that place is kinda a shithole.

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      [–]Musky 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

      I don't own the site, so if I found someone who would give me money for it that would be awesome.

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        [–]Musky 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

        There's at least 68 users. We were trending near 200 before the Cloudflare bullshit.

        [–]x0x7 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

        It's not worth that much. I've seen that before too because I wanted to valuate some of my sites but also wanted to sanity check it with other sites I'm on. On every kind of site that does that sort of thing Saidit is always absurdly high while sites like Poal are only a little high too be believable. Maybe it's just total number of links. But for a site with about 60 real active users it's hobbieware, just like everything I own, which means it really is worth ~$100. There's nothing wrong with that. It becomes more reasonable to consider that something you put a lot of time into isn't a wild success when you consider that people are enjoying what you made and that's why it was made. But sites like these aren't really worth anything.

        [–]x0x7 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

        I'm up to help however. I've already dominated spammers before with something kind of like AI. It's like a lazy man's transformers which works well for titles, domains, and urls. If a human can tell something is spam so can a bot. We can make it only take out the most obvious.

        If anyone cares to know how it works it's pretty simple.