My Thoughts on What's Wrong with Saidit

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    [–]magnora7 12 insightful - 6 fun12 insightful - 5 fun13 insightful - 6 fun -  (6 children)

    I care a lot. The problem is I only have so many hours in a day, and I also have to make an income to survive outside this site (because this site sure as heck isn't paying the bills).

    I've done literally thousands of hours of work for free over the last 3 years. The problem is that no one else cares as much as me.

    [–]sproketboy 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

    Can't you get some revenue from ad networks? Or setup a GoFundMe or similar?

    [–]magnora7 10 insightful - 4 fun10 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 4 fun -  (4 children)

    Saidit doesn't have ads and only works on donations, and that's part of our strategy to avoid creating bias and bad incentives. I've thought about turning ads on, but I decided it's not worth the headache and I don't want to go against my word regarding ads. (I also do not want to deal with notifications about "our advertisers don't like this type of content, can you please minimize it on your platform" and that type of thing for a few hundred dollars a month at most)

    We have a patreon and cryptocurrency donation options if people want to help financially. https://www.patreon.com/SaidIt

    https://saidit.net/s/SaidIt/comments/jf/cryptocurrency_support_for_saiditnet/

    If I get enough I can hire a programmer to accomplish some projects that would help, but it's going to take a couple hundred dollars to get one capable enough, probably.

    [–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

    What priority projects do you have in mind? Have you asked the masses what their priorities are? I'd wager that if you found where they overlap you could do a post or few on the various goals to raise a code bounty to get er done.

    IMO, you'd do well to do feature a new goal on the regular. (ie. weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, quarterly) By engaging the masses they will not only feel like they have a stake in things, they'll also feel a responsibility when contributing - and unlike voting, they'd actually see results. We all want to help you and SaidIt's success. Give them/us a voice by asking how we could help improve SaidIt and you be the decider (but better than Bush Jr.).

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      [–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

      Saved. All great ideas. I'd love to see those presented to the community at large, to be embraced or improved. /s/SaidItCoding might be better, as I also have hopes that there will be some /s/Work or /s/Classifieds for people to connect for gigs or help, and less confusion is better.