The Otter

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The Otter is a senior software developer and loves data. The Otter likes to be creative and have fun. The Otter also loves otters and all the plants and creatures in nature. Check out the NEW otters community https://bbs.market/OTTER/posts.

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Unable to claim staking rewards

I am still unable to claim the claimable staking rewards because the claim button is disabled. The restake button is also disabled. Looks like I can stake a new amount but why would anyone trust a platform with more money when they cannot get their staking rewards back out. I believe this is an ongoing issue for quite a while and expected it to be resolved by now. Any updates on the status of this issue?Nov 5, 2022

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Top Boards Page

The Top Boards page is limited to 9 boards and I wonder why this is the case. This is probably one of the first pages that new people go to on BBS market. Why not increase the Top Boards to 20? Let more communities be seen. A bit more text on the description would be good too.  Also a new and/or upcoming communities page would be great too so new communities can be found and joined easily.Oct 16, 2022

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Monetization is a dirty word on BBS Network

I'm tired of the narrative that it's bad to want to monetize your work and community on BBS. I've made suggestions regarding the monetization and of the necessity of finding a unique selling point for BBS Network but get the feeling that monetization has become a dirty word. We are all supposed to be simply doing this out of the goodness of our hearts. Yes it's important to enjoy what you're doing. Yes the way rewards were handed out in the beginning was crazy but there's nothing wrong with wanting to monetize your work. Other social networks have that aspect. There are ways to do it that don't attract the bad players. I'm also tired of the narrative that we're supposed to put up with bugs and other irritations because it's still a new platform. The development choices seem to consistently cater to eradicating spammers and bad actors instead of prioritizing the issues the good users have with the platform. It sometimes feels like the management has a really poor opinion of the users. When I use a platform I want my enjoyment of it to outweigh the pain points. I'm losing my patience. And I'm still looking at a clunky gray interface with minimal features.Oct 5, 2022

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Comment timer - again!

I've mentioned this before. Not sure if it was in a post or in comments but the comment timer is really really annoying.  I log into BBS when I have a few minutes to spare. I'm not the only one who has a busy life to balance. When I log in I want to reply to all the new comments I have and they are often in the same post but I'm constantly hitting the timer and it really tests my patience. The team have removed all the rewards for spam comments so maybe it's time to remove this annoying timer too and just let us reply to comments without this barrier.Oct 4, 2022

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What really counts?

As a user who wants to support the communities I am in and fellow content creators, I want to see a banner at the top of each post to know if my view has counted towards supporting the post. I'm not really sure what I need to do to make my view count as it's a pretty complex thing to know. In most other places it's as simple as click on a post and read it but here there are many conditions. So I made a few cheeky mock ups that should help users know if they are relevant or irrelevant. What really counts? The above banners are just a little fun. At the end of the day it's conversions that count and we don't know the actual conversion rates. If the uncounted views lead to conversions but the advertiser doesn't have to pay for them that's a win for the advertiser. How to calculate conversions? A possible way to test conversions would be for a board owner to pick an old post that nobody much ever saw then edit it so that it has an engaging giveaway for posting a long enough comment to exceed the timer. Picking an old post would keep it off the new list so that most of the views would likely come from the ad. Then they could see views, impressions and more importantly calculate how much of their spend resulted in a conversion. In this case a conversion would be a comment entry. An alternative could be to have the ad go to an external location that is excluded from indexing so that all page views come from the ad campaign. They can count all views on this external page. The page can be something like a giveaway for new sign-ups or posts on their board where the person gets a prize for creating a post. Each contest entry would count as a conversion and then the conversion rate can be calculated.Sep 26, 2022

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BBS - A gamified social network

Following up on my last post about BBS Network's lack of a unique selling point, here are some of my ideas on how BBS could operate as a gamified social network with the ability to earn passive income the unique selling point. Imagine a social network where you could buy a whole bunch of content in the form of NFTs. Your purchased content would earn you actual income based on advertising, sponsorship, trades and views. Your content could periodically come up for renewal either by an auction or paying a fee to keep it. As a curator you would keep the winners and ditch the losers. You could garner real reputation as a curator of great content and sell your services or collections in the ecosystem. You could purchase virtual land (aka a community) and put your individual NFTs or NFT collections there. Content could be transferred easily between virtual lands. Virtual lands could be bought and sold too.  You could sell advertising space on your NFTs individually. A space above the fold, one in the middle and one at the end. And spaces in video. The virtual lands could sell packages as an income stream in their lands. Virtual lands could have single or multiple owners. The more you invest in your land the more interest it creates and the advertisers are flocking to buy space in your land. After fees and royalties were paid, there are profits to be made for the land owners.  Your virtual land could also have an NFT for special membership benefits like private posts and events. This could generate more income for your land. Posts from great content creators would be in high demand naturally. A new post from one of these creators with a real reputation for creating great content would be snapped up quickly. There would be lists of most viewed posts, posts with highest paying sponsors, community owner best lists. Search would bring up the most relevant content. This game is not a gravy train, it is won by entrepreneurs and self-starters willing to take risks and invest their time and money wisely. The viewers also win as do the advertisers and sponsors. Changing focus by adding a cost for various activities like virtual land purchase, trading fees and royalties would also free up development resources and seed funding for new features focused on the USP plus overall promotion of the BBS network to  attract entrepreneurs and self-starters instead of policing communities, views and content as well as vetting communities and creators in restrictive ways. It may even be possible to integrate a BBS virtual land or NFTs into other metaverse platforms thereby creating more revenue streams for the content creators, traders, curators, land owners and wider viewership for sponsors and advertisers. Why not be on the leading edge in the space and not on the falling edge as just another wannabe social network with no clear differentiator? There's so much potential. It's not too late to reverse direction.Sep 25, 2022

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BBS - Why?

I have just seen the latest update taking even more steps against fraudsters. It seems like more development resources are being thrown at making complex systems that are getting increasingly hard to understand. My views are now only counted if I say the magic word three times while dancing in circles on one foot five days after a new moon but not on Fridays! About a year ago, the defining factor of the BBS network seemed to me the NFT aspect of the network. The other defining feature of being able to earn from your content was also a unique feature. Instead of working on expanding these unique features the focus is on what exactly? A very late replica of other social networks? Is it just a revival of an obsolete bulletin board system that reached its peak last century except now it's on the blockchain? Being able to trade NFTs was something that got me excited about logging on to the BBS network. I thought it was fun to be able to trade and looked into curating a collection of NFT posts. Instead of expanding on creating a unique gamified social network and working on the issues  related to NFT trading, it has become pointless activity. It would have been great for investors to easily find and buy gems and be able to keep them and that could earn them some passive income.  This could have included things like sorting the quality issues in a way that didn't punish good content creators, improving the listing functions so that quality was highlighted and rubbish sunk to the bottom, allowing NFT owners to hold on to their NFTs and mechanisms for entrepreneurs to easily invest their own funds and sell the ad space on their NFTs could have brought funds and users into the platform. It's hard to see any competitive edge for BBS Network now. There doesn't seem to be a clear direction except to wipe out fraud at all costs and lose good players and all the fun in the process.Sep 25, 2022

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Staking page responsiveness issue

The staking page has a problem on a smaller laptop screen. If I zoom to 90% it looks ok but at 100% it is ugly and difficult to read. The problematic width range is  1024 to 1279.Sep 13, 2022

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BBS Network, Privacy and Self-Censorship

The BBS network and bbs.market are not equivalent. If you share any private data with bbs.market or other operator you can reasonably expect that this is kept private and safe within the terms and conditions of the platform. The media files are stored on Google Firebase Storage so the privacy and security of those files falls under their policies. The BBS network itself is not private. Everything is on the public blockchain. Every post, comment and every edit you ever made to them is publicly available on the blockchain along with all your BBS transactions and earnings. There is some anonymity presently if an account is not linked to other identified social media accounts and no cash out is made to a centralized exchange or identifiable wallet and VPN is used to interact with the site.  Linking to your other social media accounts or cashing out to a centralized exchange or identifiable wallet removes that protection. It is good to keep the public nature of the blockchain in mind when we are creating posts. I can delete or edit or hide content I have created but that will only remove it from view on the bbs.market platform. It is still on the blockchain in the original transaction. Some level of self-censorship can be beneficial so that we don't harm ourselves in the future. Within each board's guidelines, it is the responsibility of each individual creator to find their own comfort level with respect to self-censorship and to be aware of and accept that there are consequences of what they post both now and in future. BBS network content is truly "forever" content (that is until some disaster wipes it out). It is an unfortunate fact of life, like it or not, that we need to use our public face/persona for certain activities.Sep 2, 2022

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Followings

Are people enthusiastic about the following function? This function brings the BBS network in line with other social networks but it also creates a popularity focus.  Do you thing there will be BBS influencers in future? Does the leadership team of bbs.market have any plans to tie partnership to follower numbers or to preferentially treating content? I've only just seen this new feature so not had the chance to follow anyone yet. I'm not sure of the utility to me at the moment because I like to see all the content people post. I can see utility when the network grows and time constraints will lead some of us to need to filter what content we want to see. How about others? Are you using the following feature?Sep 2, 2022

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Collecting Posts

Several weeks have gone by since the big changes to the points and earning systems. I was interested in "collecting" a bunch of posts to earn RP but find it is too time consuming and there is no real reward in it at this point for two main reasons I will discuss. Collecting and curating posts could be a real use case for RP if these two barriers are addressed because there is an intrinsic value in this activity and it would add value to the network. Lack of Stability I can curate a collection but somebody else can promote the post straight back out of my collection so from a curation point of view there is little motivation to curate a collection. Why would I waste my time? I read a comment from @Eyal somewhere in the past that talked about after an initial bidding period needing to get permission from the current owner to buy a post. This was when we talked about buying posts and they had some monetary gain.  As a collector I can live without monetary gain but I want some security/stability to my collection. A promotions freeze could still work. Perhaps after a week of open promotions the last promoter could opt-in to a promotion freeze for a year for some amount of RP. Promotions could still be possible but an interested party would need to ask permission from the current promoter. And the publisher could say whether they allow promoter freeze when they post their content. In this way curating a collection could become more attractive. No home The next barrier to curating a collection is that there is no way to categorize my curated collections. All the posts I promote are jumbled together sorted by date. Only the creator of the post can put the post in a channel. It would be great to have some sort of channel or categorization ability for curated collections too. Say for example, I have collected all the Releases posts, I could create my own "collection" called releases. People could know I collect these posts and visit my profile to see my collection. This may bring traffic to my profile to see my posts and gain me some advertising revenue on my own posts. Perhaps, another interested collector could buy my collection giving me an actual monetary reward for all the hard work I put in to find and curate my collection. This could be official functionality or a private deal, either way the ability to transfer a collection in full would be handy too.  Collecting posts can be a rewarding experience even without monetary value but only if there is some security/stability to the curated collection and the ability to "house" the collection to allow other members find it.Aug 21, 2022

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An idea for utilizing Reputation

I have an idea for utilizing Reputation (RP) so I thought I'd share it. At the moment RP doesn't have much use beyond being a kind of  game score. It may have more utility in the future but I don't know, perhaps it was shared in the live call but the live call is not at a good time for me so I can only read the summaries. There was a post from Eyal about the CTO wearing a BBS t-shirt so my idea is to buy swag like t-shirts with your RP. I don't know how exactly it would work. Maybe they could partner with a swag company and give us a UI component to convert RP to funds to buy the swag. This would be fun and good marketing too because people might ask "What's BBS?". It's just an idea for the future perhaps.Jul 25, 2022

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Partner Earnings - Maybe it's not what you think!

It is a simple exercise to find out how much partners make. Go to their profile count the number of times they've posted in a week and then check their ad server payments. Some of the ad server payments will be for older posts but it will give you a rough idea of their earnings. I did this for the last week for a few of the people who are on the partner list. Just chosen from the latest posters. These were just rough manual counts and I counted only $1 per ad server payment. They vary some of them are e.g. $1.02 or $1.04 depending on the CPM. For the purposes of this "back of the napkin" calculation it's not important because there will be 10% tax and then fees to withdraw so let's just round to $1.  JA posted 30 times and earned $20 TO posted 9 times and earned $5 CV posted 27 times and earned $23 NS posted 24 times and earned $13 C posted 13 times and earned $11 W posted 3 times and earned $4 That's an average of about $0.72 per post. Let is say a post takes 15 minutes to create. That's a conservative estimate because I'm sure some take a lot longer and not many would take less when you factor in the time to get images and type in the post or record a video. Then that's equivalent of $2.87 for an hour's work.  And we're not even counting the time the active people who are partners put in to comment and interact with others.  So enjoy the community, posting and reading and interacting and forget about the money! Jul 22, 2022

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Data Snapshot - How have things changed?

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Tipping in BBS

I would like to be able to easily tip from my BBS balance especially to non-partnered members to be able to encourage them or as appreciation for an exceptional post or comment. The RP tip is fine but an actual BBS tip is better. As I see it now that the processes have changed it is not a loophole for a scam. I would use my own BBS balance that I've either earned or purchased. Currently, I can send BBS to another user with a message but it is not so convenient. With a BBS tip, it would be very convenient. If you have some BBS balance it could look something like this. How about it?Jul 22, 2022

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What sets BBS Network apart from other social media platforms?

We all know BBS is a little rough at the moment but things are progressing bit by bit so let's just ignore that it's a prototype for now and get down to the essential nature of the BBS Network and what makes it stand out from the crowd of established players. Earning from your creative work In the beginning of the project most people would likely have said that the ability to earn from your creative work was the thing that set BBS Network apart. The rewards were good and it attracted many spammers and scammers. The BBS Network isn't an endless source of free money so the tap had to be closed. It will likely get more and more difficult to earn from posting as all the revenue will have to come from actual advertisers in the ecosystem.  Does the ability to earn from your creative work set BBS network apart from other platforms? No. Medium does it with their partner program. Decentralization Is BBS Network decentralized. There have been many discussions about decentralization and whether or not BBS Networks is decentralized. The platform has a central team setting overall policy and code. There are only a few operators currently that need to use the same core code but anyone can start a community and there are many communities. Censorship resistance Because anyone can easily start a community on BBS Network, this helps with censorship-resistance but resistance is key word. If you get banned from FaceBook for expressing opposing views you can start your own website but the reach of that website is going to be lower. Pressure and regulation could see the same power of governments to close down boards easily on bbs.market and shut out operators and boards who host on their own domain.  BUT... Privacy Is privacy the thing that sets BBS Network apart? First question to ask is, is BBS Network private? Absolutely not! It is the most public of all the social networks because every comment, transaction and post is recorded on the blockchain for anyone to see.   If the ability to use the data on the blockchain is only available to corporates and institutions with deep pockets then our data can be misused as it is now.  If regular people have the ability to use that data with some easy to use tools like the promised SDK (Software Development Kit),  then the playing field can be levelled. For instance, if a community is shut down, all their posts are available forever on the blockchain and could pop up somewhere else to keep that community alive. Also with tools and education, people will have the same access to the social network data to learn what trends are there and how their data looks to other algorithms. This is powerful stuff.  Corporate ownership I believe the main thing that sets BBS Network apart is that it is not corporate-owned and the data is available to all (with the right tools and education).  It's possible that an operator could be corporate-controlled but there can be private operators too. The same for communities. Some communities could become corporate-sponsored through advertising but there will be other more voluntary communities that do not need corporate advertisers or even care about earning on their posts.  What are your thoughts on what sets BBS Network apart from other social platforms?Jul 22, 2022

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Navigating the BBS Network as a new community member

The processes and environment here on the BBS Network can be a bit mysterious at first. There are a lot of posts with lots of rules and long explanations but it's not really all that complicated underneath it all. Here is a few tips for navigating the BBS Network. 1. Read posts for the community you are in to see what kinds of content are being shared in that community.  2. Visit the community daily for a week or so.  Each day you will get a little bonus Reputation (RP) just for visiting. 3. When you save up a few bonuses, find a new post that really interests you and Promote it if you have enough RP to stake on it. Newer posts are likely to have a lower cost and someone is likely to promote it again so you get your stake back hopefully with a little extra from the views the post got. This will give you a feel for how the Promotion process works. 4. Comment on posts that interest you. You don't need to say much but try to make it a meaningful comment that's relevant to the post. 5. When you have something to say create a post and publish it. The post doesn't have to be long or perfect to start with. Read the guidelines though to make sure your content is in line with the rules on the board you are posting in because they are all different. 6. Keep reading, commenting, posting and promoting! 7. You may be invited to be a Partner in the community you are contributing to. It's not guaranteed but if you are posting some good content and interacting with others you may be lucky. At that point your posts will earn some actual money. 8. Explore other communities. There are new ones coming up all the time.Jul 21, 2022

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BBS Network Valuable Experience

I heard recently heard a wise saying: Comparison is the thief of joy! Maybe you are waiting to be invited to be Partner or maybe your posts don't get many views and comments. Maybe you feel the process is unfair and the people who have been made Partners don't deserve it. It's easy to compare yourself with others and see yourself as not as good. Partners aren't better than non-partners. We are all part of the same communities on BBS Network. I felt lucky when I got added to the Partner list. It's a bonus but it doesn't change how good or bad my content is. I know I have felt discouraged at times and I've felt that BBS Network wasn't worth the trouble. I can see the story in my post history.   I joined just before Christmas 2021. At that time the board was plagued with spam and it was difficult to be seen at all. Your posts got pushed down the list very quickly by numerous jpgs of NFTs and other rubbish. When I first applied for whitelisting I was denied it due to "coordinated post buying". Many of the good publishers at that time were also denied. We didn't even get an explanation of what that was. The METABBS team communicates much better now and we have so much more information. At that time I gave up the quest to make money or to ever cash out and decided to just enjoy what I was doing or not do it. I looked at my funds as nothing more than play money. We all kept at it and eventually got whitelisted if we weren't spamming and scamming the system. By then my cashable balance had grown slowly and surely. I'm nobody special. I started with $0.50 just like everyone at that time. I still make cashable under today's conditions and hopefully under tomorrow's too but there is no guarantee of that. In such a short time, I have seen so many changes on BBS Network. I predict that the BBS Network in a year's time will be different too. It will get harder to make money. The money is nice but it's not just about the money. What we are all learning through our experiences here is invaluable. Among other things, some are learning to be better content creators, some are learning how to make and grow communities, some are learning better English language skills and some are finding their voice. We have a relatively level playing field here that you won't find on any established social media platforms. So hang in there, keep posting. You can be successful here. Success may just be to post that idea you have and break through the fear of speaking up or to post 3 times a week or to find some time away from your busy life just for one good post every now and then. Share your thoughts, play and enjoy what you're doing here because then you always win! 😊Jul 21, 2022

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10 Potentially Evergreen Tutorials to Promote

The METABBS community has a lot of helpful content creators that have created tutorials and how-to posts. Some of the following are still fresh and are likely to still get some views. They may be worth a look to see if it's worthwhile promoting them again. You only gain some Reputation Points (RP) for promoting posts. RP is like a game score or health points. Who knows what the future is for RP! Withdrawing BBS Token Compilation of BBS Token Withdraw/Transfer/Stake Tutorials & Step by step Guides!! How to withdraw your tokens from Wombat Wallet! Step by step guide to Withdraw BBS to ur Metamask Wallet !! **Simpler Version for Newbies** Step by Step Tutorial - How to Withdraw BBS Tokens to Coinbase EOS Wallet BBS Token Purchase Tutorial on How to Add $BBS TOKEN on Metamask BBS Withdrawal and Purchase Guide Staking BBS Token Video Tutorial  - How to Stake your BBS Tokens? (Step By Step Process) Ad Campaigns Step by Step Tutorial - Running an Ad Campaign - Tips and Gotchas Creating Posts Video Tutorial - How to use the post editor features Video Tutorial on How to use TEXT Editor Tool and make ur posts more presentable?Jul 21, 2022

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Stake on older content for 1 RP

Having a search function means that we are now easily able to find older content. 1. Type in some general search terms in to the search and then scan down the list for interesting posts or ones that stand out to you 2. Check the activity page of the post (click on the 3 vertical dots on the top right of the post) 3. Click on the promote post button to see the total views and what you need to stake 4. Read the post. Is it good quality? Is it evergreen content or outdated? 5. Look for posts that have the decimal places as these haven't been promoted since the update that introduced the changes Many of these posts will have more views than the previous purchase prices so the stake will be low. You can possibly earn some Reputation Points (RP)  on this old content. Happy searching.Jul 21, 2022

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