Wallstreet Bets

BASIC IDEA:

Would sythe.org as a whole participate in a forum (or a thread) dedicated to stock investment insight if there was one? I know the site demographic is primarily teens 14-18, but there's also quite a bit of people in their 20s, and quite a bit who are active in crypto and stock exchange. Sharing insight could be incentivized somehow to foster interest in the section as future CDT events, maybe

EXTREME ITERATION BELOW:

If A LOT of work were put into this idea, it'd be neat to have a site widget inside a stock-dedicated forum that tracks the stock performance of recently submitted bets. The UI could be repurposed for other sub-forums as well where featured items, prices, or profiles would be useful for users. Like RSGP prices, WoW gold prices, League Boosting rates and top boosters, etc.

The idea is the titles are formatted in a specific way, a bot parses it and searches a stock database using the stock listing name, and back-end functionality tracks the progress of top all-time performing bets, daily bet performance, and top investor information.

Top investor information could be diversity (number of stocks supplied in the sub forum), performance metrics like average portfolio performance, highest growth, other such bullshit, etc.

The threads themselves would be encouraged to include sources as to why their stock bet is a good one.

Investors who post shitty bets continuously receive blocks from posting new listings for a defined amount of time.

Awards from CDT to incentivize the top investors, and other leveling functionality that keeps Top Investors competitive.

 

Personally I don't see how this benefits the site. It also introduces complications with international gambling legalities, so I'm not in favor personally.

Though there might be an interesting way to tie SytheGold into this...

 

The hopeful benefit is increased site engagement, but I didn't think about international gambling legalities. I would have zero clues what legal issues it could present

 

I think there might be misunderstanding about the title I gave, so just in case: When I say "bets" I don't mean actual gambling. It's more of a play on words for the subreddit r/wallstreetbets, which runs perfectly fine on the backbone of resource linking and spectulatory discussion

but again, I have no clue what redtapes would crop up if the idea iterates into site functionality versus a forum dedicated to stock conversation in addition to cryptocurrency conversation

 

Maybe I misunderstood your original suggestion @MohtasaUnique. We have a subforum for investment discussion Cryptocurrency, Finance, & Gambling Discussion and we have discord bots that track prices of various things. Is your idea basically combining the two?

 

Yeah, incorporation into the site itself for something more interactive to entice activity on-site. Incentivizing and gamifying that particular niche may foster increased interest in people curious about starting stock investment as well as get insight out of seasoned traders in the community.

All contingent on whether people participate of course

The underlying direction I’m taking on a few suggestions I’m making and am still ideating is how to increase forum engagement. I’d love to see sythe buzzing like it was pre-2012, and some of that activity is side-stepped into discord and offsite platforms, which dilutes the level of activity (in my own perception, which may be skewed)