team

4y

@VIOBAS

1 paid sticky thread a week for an up an coming artist in the Music section but just 1 and only 1. With Paid promo listed. So everyone knows it’s a paid promo

this is good

RD

4y

ill pm u my paypal for my consulting fee

RD

4y

Engagement is the north star metric, so any monetization should be done in conjunction with that objective. Pay-access sections and most freemium offerings would hinder engagement, and thus represent a tradeoff between short term revenue and long term virtuous circle network effects -- to be avoided unless you have a truly dire cash crunch.

Dedicate some of the vacant space on the homepage to a "best posts" widget containing the posts with the most likes and "awards" (a reddit gold equivalent, the success of which can be seen here: http://gold.reddit-stream.com/gold/table), weighing heavily in favor of awards over likes. On reddit, in addition to a gilded post being easier to identify in a crowd, the recipient of an award is given access to a few superfluous features that go largely ignored -- a***ogues would be easy to find on ktt2, all of which should be drafted with the guiding principle that they serve to increase engagement. A few ideas:

• gif avys
• emojis in username
• ability to make x amount of anonymous posts (ghost posts 👻)
• right to change one other user's avy for a day

All of these work towards a more robust sense of identity and community for the members of the site, which ties their emotional state more stringently to their ktt2 persona. But a further, perhaps more meaningful opportunity exists by returning to the recipient some of the fee paid to give an award, in the form of credits that can be exchanged for cash or used to purchase more awards at a discount (ideally, the discount would cause the credits to go unredeemed more often than not). There's still no better incentivizing force for the creation of frequent, high quality content than actually paying people for it.

Where ktt2 can really differentiate itself, though, is in accepting social media for what it is: a device to amplify the most vain and debased aspects of the human character. Mainstream sites have all co-opted the rhetoric of liberalism, promoting themselves as marketplaces of ideas, bastions of free speech, and a force for good in the world. This has hamstrung them from fully exploiting the manipulative hold they have over their userbase, lest their hypocrisy become more evident than it already is. F*** that. Openly and notoriously embrace the inherently toxic, inherently superficial, inherently egotistical reality of online communities.

Which leads to the s***post award, given when a post is so awful it compels you to take action -- see any of Rigby's posts for examples. Instead of rewarding the user with additional features, this would:

• allow the gifter to change the recipients avy for a day
• implement a cool down period between (shit)posts
• implement a variety of other annoyances that inhibit the poster's ability to continue to be an awful member of the community

This should generate the type of vitriol and brooding anxiety that makes people obsessively engage with the site.

RD

4y

Engagement is the north star metric, so any monetization should be done in conjunction with that objective. Pay-access sections and most freemium offerings would hinder engagement, and thus represent a tradeoff between short term revenue and long term virtuous circle network effects -- to be avoided unless you have a truly dire cash crunch.

Dedicate some of the vacant space on the homepage to a "best posts" widget containing the posts with the most likes and "awards" (a reddit gold equivalent, the success of which can be seen here: http://gold.reddit-stream.com/gold/table), weighing heavily in favor of awards over likes. On reddit, in addition to a gilded post being easier to identify in a crowd, the recipient of an award is given access to a few superfluous features that go largely ignored -- a***ogues would be easy to find on ktt2, all of which should be drafted with the guiding principle that they serve to increase engagement. A few ideas:

• gif avys
• emojis in username
• ability to make x amount of anonymous posts (ghost posts 👻)
• right to change one other user's avy for a day

All of these work towards a more robust sense of identity and community for the members of the site, which ties their emotional state more stringently to their ktt2 persona. But a further, perhaps more meaningful opportunity exists by returning to the recipient some of the fee paid to give an award, in the form of credits that can be exchanged for cash or used to purchase more awards at a discount (ideally, the discount would cause the credits to go unredeemed more often than not). There's still no better incentivizing force for the creation of frequent, high quality content than actually paying people for it.

Where ktt2 can really differentiate itself, though, is in accepting social media for what it is: a device to amplify the most vain and debased aspects of the human character. Mainstream sites have all co-opted the rhetoric of liberalism, promoting themselves as marketplaces of ideas, bastions of free speech, and a force for good in the world. This has hamstrung them from fully exploiting the manipulative hold they have over their userbase, lest their hypocrisy become more evident than it already is. F*** that. Openly and notoriously embrace the inherently toxic, inherently superficial, inherently egotistical reality of online communities.

Which leads to the s***post award, given when a post is so awful it compels you to take action -- see any of Rigby's posts for examples. Instead of rewarding the user with additional features, this would:

• allow the gifter to change the recipients avy for a day
• implement a cool down period between (shit)posts
• implement a variety of other annoyances that inhibit the poster's ability to continue to be an awful member of the community

This should generate the type of vitriol and brooding anxiety that makes people obsessively engage with the site.

RD

4y

Engagement is the north star metric, so any monetization should be done in conjunction with that objective. Pay-access sections and most freemium offerings would hinder engagement, and thus represent a tradeoff between short term revenue and long term virtuous circle network effects -- to be avoided unless you have a truly dire cash crunch.

Dedicate some of the vacant space on the homepage to a "best posts" widget containing the posts with the most likes and "awards" (a reddit gold equivalent, the success of which can be seen here: http://gold.reddit-stream.com/gold/table), weighing heavily in favor of awards over likes. On reddit, in addition to a gilded post being easier to identify in a crowd, the recipient of an award is given access to a few superfluous features that go largely ignored -- a***ogues would be easy to find on ktt2, all of which should be drafted with the guiding principle that they serve to increase engagement. A few ideas:

• gif avys
• emojis in username
• ability to make x amount of anonymous posts (ghost posts 👻)
• right to change one other user's avy for a day

All of these work towards a more robust sense of identity and community for the members of the site, which ties their emotional state more stringently to their ktt2 persona. But a further, perhaps more meaningful opportunity exists by returning to the recipient some of the fee paid to give an award, in the form of credits that can be exchanged for cash or used to purchase more awards at a discount (ideally, the discount would cause the credits to go unredeemed more often than not). There's still no better incentivizing force for the creation of frequent, high quality content than actually paying people for it.

Where ktt2 can really differentiate itself, though, is in accepting social media for what it is: a device to amplify the most vain and debased aspects of the human character. Mainstream sites have all co-opted the rhetoric of liberalism, promoting themselves as marketplaces of ideas, bastions of free speech, and a force for good in the world. This has hamstrung them from fully exploiting the manipulative hold they have over their userbase, lest their hypocrisy become more evident than it already is. F*** that. Openly and notoriously embrace the inherently toxic, inherently superficial, inherently egotistical reality of online communities.

Which leads to the s***post award, given when a post is so awful it compels you to take action -- see any of Rigby's posts for examples. Instead of rewarding the user with additional features, this would:

• allow the gifter to change the recipients avy for a day
• implement a cool down period between (shit)posts
• implement a variety of other annoyances that inhibit the poster's ability to continue to be an awful member of the community

This should generate the type of vitriol and brooding anxiety that makes people obsessively engage with the site.

rvi

4y

holy s*** dude

buu

4y

that mfer really wrote all that

buu

5y

Merch?

What sort of dweeb is going to wear KTT2 branded clothing

Alex

4y

me

and can guarantee you're probably the biggest dweeb around with or without the merch

I would rock a shirt for sure

buu

4y

I’m sure you would

Biggest mod ass slurper in the history of ktt1/ktt2/kanyelive