https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/17/24158848/reddit-brings-back-award-system-gold-coins-messed-up
The company said it’s golden upvote system “missed the mark.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66925550
The social media site will split revenue with contributors who are awarded "gold" by other users.
Like you, I'm a passionate user of K.Bin but lately, I'm noticing that things are getting kinda stale around here. The most recent thread in this, the top-level magazine on K.Bin, is 4 days old. Many other top 25 magazines are also suffering from a similar lack of fresh content. I run /m/scifi and it's been continuing to grow and thrive over the past 4 months for one simple reason. If you want to Supercharge K.Bin, then remind yourself of those four little words every day:
### It's the content, stupid.
This should be the defacto slogan of K.Bin - you wanna get people off of Reddit? It's the content, stupid. Stop complaining that Reddit sucks - we KNOW it sucks - but K.Bin won't become the sane alternative if there's nothing to read or interact with, there.
I'm just one person, but I'm doing my part and I know others are doing the same. If we can transition from 1% of the crowd adding new content for the other 99% to lurk and read to 5% of the crowd adding new stuff for 50% of the crowd to respond to and the other 45% to lurk and read, we'll be well on our way to defeating Reddit.
Food for thought - have a great weekend.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/24/us/louisiana-wildfires-merryville-evacuation/index.html
A southwestern Louisiana town is under mandatory evacuation Thursday due to wildfires in the area as the state deals with extreme heat and a statewide burn ban.
https://abc7.com/orange-county-bar-mass-shooting-trabuco-canyon-crooks-corner/13694011/
The gunman in the deadly Trabuco Canyon shooting was a retired Ventura police sergeant who targeted his wife first and then randomly shot other patrons at Cook's Corner, officials say.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/elon-musk-says-twitter-change-logo-adieu-all-birds-2023-07-23/
Musk signaled he would do more to take the company in a new direction with a rebranding after acknowledging advertisers have been slow to return.
https://www.axios.com/2023/06/20/scientific-community-eyes-doors-twitter
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