How can you help SaidIt succeed?

submitted by magnora7 from self.SaidIt

If you're like us and want to see this site grow and become a lively place of quality conversation and quality topics, then here's some ways you can help saidit grow and succeed:

1. Vote on stuff and comment. It shows activity, which attracts people and helps shape the culture of the site.

2. Post things on various subs. More posts means more things for people to look at, and you can have your say on the culture of saidit moving forward as well. Every voice matters. Say what you really want to say!

3. Create a sub. After 2 weeks, you can create 1 sub per week. Go for it! Create your niche sub, or even just a sub of your writings or vlogs and let's do this! Make the place you want to hang out in. This is the chance for a fresh start.

4. Use the chat. We have a great IRC chat app over there on the right. Say hi, you don't even have to have a user name. Chat with random people on a sub you like, and let's start building a true peer-to-peer community as much as we can.

5. If you really want to help in a big way, we also could use extra programmers to help develop the site. If anyone is interested in helping that way, just send me a message. It's mostly python, javascript, html/css/less, postgreSQL, linux, and a few other things. We are able to accomplish everything we need to do, but we want to do it faster so extra help would be useful.

6. And lastly if you're interested in supporting us financially, check out our patreon or give cryptocurrency here:

7. And one final thing that everyone can do: Tell other people about saidit! If you talk to a high-quality user on another site, let them know about this site. Spread the word.

Thank you everyone. It's been awesome seeing things grow so far, and we're extremely grateful to everyone participating.

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[–]Chop_Chop 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Thanks for the site! I'll do whatever I can to spread the word.

[–]magnora7[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks!

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

Sadly my Reddit interests are a bit niche (mostly internet drama), but I'll try to help.

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

Let's keep up the good work.

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

Make the internet great again! Social media for the win. Enjoy and spread the word.

[–]BixBarton 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I am in, and saidit'ing it hard to everyone I know!

[–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Awesome! Glad to have you here

[–]choppedlettuce 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

New to this site and am not technically savvy. Can someone explain what problems are plaguing reddit and/or voat what saidit is doing differently in those departments? Cheers!

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Hi choppedlettuce, welcome to saidit!

One of the big problems with reddit right now is vote-brigading. This is when teams of people work together, using dozens or sometimes hundreds of accounts, to vote on comments and posts, to make parts of reddit look the way they want. Part of the reason this is possible is because reddit has up and down votes, so a downvote "undoes" an upvote, so to speak.

However on saidit, we have two kinds of upvotes (insightful, and funny) and no downvote. This means that there is no way to "undo" another person's vote, and no thus no easy way for these vote-gamers to censor others.

That's just one reason. Another reason is that reddit threads lock in 6 months and you can no longer comment or voat. Saidit threads never lock.

On reddit, bad actors can create dozens of subreddits and create the appearance of popularity when there is none. One saidit, accounts are limited to creating one sub per week. This makes it easier for the community to avoid spamming situations.

Saidit is also not run by corrupt admins who will turn a blind eye to censorship, as we unfortunately see more and more on reddit.

Also we do not plan to redesign the site to be more advertiser friendly as reddit is currently doing. We in fact have no ads, ever. It's completely run by donations, and is streamlined to be very cost-effective so we can run it for years to come.

Hope that helps give you an idea of what we're about. If you want to know anything else, just ask and I'll be happy to help.

[–]choppedlettuce 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Thanks for the reply! This was a good intro, but I'm still curious. I'm still not sure how Saidit resolved the vote rigging issue other than preventing vote cancellation. How does it prevent artificial "upvotes"??

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There is no vote censoring because of the new redesign, which was a big part of the vote rigging. People can't silence others. However it would still be possible for upvote rigging to occur. We're thinking about adding measures to make accounts more difficult to measure, but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it and that becomes an actual problem. We haven't solved the problem completely, but have solved the most important half.