“The idea of this chat is to come up with ideas about how to improve the current search reward system” …
Well the title of the proposal is “New User Incentives”. Obviously “search rewards” has LONG been a part of that but perhaps there needs to be a thread just for search rewards.
Search rewards in general has been a MASSIVE thorn in the side of Presearch. Go on TG and it’s flooded with negativity about “withdrawls” and those focused on NOTHING but how much PRE they can “earn”. Is that the users Presearch is after?? Minuscule “rewards” will always be a PITA. I think the search staking will weed out the “bottom” feeders and be left with those really into crypto. Which will be great for those also not really wanting to run a Node.
For those not interested in crypto they won’t care. OR they might say hey …it’s easy enough (??) to by $50 worth of PRE and finally get involved a little more in the cryptoverse. This will come when Presearch makes it easy enough to buy (on the way with contract mod)
“I don’t expect many regular users (who don’t hold/invest PRE now) to buy PRE on the open market and stake PRE to get “a little higher” PRE search rewards as they earn nowadays.”
Becuase likely they don’t care about crypto. They are more interested in Privacy and non-biased search results.
I just don’t believe that “search rewards” is the end all be all mechanism for “keeping” OR getting new users. A minimal amount or rewards is a marketing ploy and always has been…NOW ,if they begin thinking …wow I could buy some to stake and actually really make an earning difference …good for us good for them!
I’ve never said we shouldn’t continue the conversation, it just that “New User Incentives” could include something other than paying people to use Presearch through “rewards”. Just the beautiful backgrounds are an incentive …if they get quality search results. That alone may be incentive enough. No trackers and privacy can be enough of an incentive. Not supporting “Big Tech” can be enough.
People have to INFORMED about all of these things which falls on the Marketing department.
I agree with @XRPRE wholeheatedly regarding “B/C” Reward users with OTHER activities not for just using a search engine. This is an EXCELLENT idea and would rid Presearch of the massive thorn of “search rewards”. In fact if we could do what he mentions in B/C I would prefer we eliminate all unstaked search rewards.
New 48 hour time lock on search staking tokens to prevent gaming
New 25 PRE incentive for all new users
Presearch reduces/replaces old search rewards with other incentives. I like that but. As mentioned there are issues with search staking and they are already starting to have to combat those (2.) as predicted. I do like the 25 PRE signup for all users and an additional 25 for referrals but I think they could have used non-PRE incentives like AI access for a week or a month for new users instead of the 25 PRE. That will quickly become unsustainable unless of course they develop additional consumptive PRE utilities that allow users to leverage their usage rewards.
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The current PRE utilities are all a drain on the treasury or stagnant tokens. There are no consumptive PRE utilities that actually put PRE back into the Treasury. The roadmap should reprioritize consumptive PRE utilities the sooner you get net PRE INFLOW to treasury the sooner the project is sustainable.
That may mean you have to give some ownership and future profit potential away to people who will bring the user base. That should be OK, as long as PREsearch is still getting a piece of the bigger pie!
One of the activities that Pre will return to the system is the new keyword model, Of course other functions can be developed or adapted for that as well, Currently what is done is that part of the income obtained is used for Pre repurchases, but if it is necessary to implement consumption in Pre
I like the idea of AI usage being tied to streaks. Like if you lose your streak you lose the AI and have to go back to square 1 building back your streak for access.
I don’t understand the whole NFT thing at all. I’m sort of an idiot at crypto stuff, so maybe save that for node people who are more tech savvy than me.
I emailed about becoming an ambassador, so maybe I could create the video you need about how to set Presearch as a default search engine on different browsers.
Streak badges and anything that gamify the experience is a good thing like leaderboards. I’m imagining earning a goofy little pet and then your usage feeds the pet and then the pet hatches or evolves or whatever and you can share it on social media with your referral code. And then when you learn something cool via AI you can generate an image of the pet with a speech bubble containing the AI generated text to share to social media with your referral code. Haha don’t listen to me I’m crazy.