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80 sats \ 1 reply \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 15h \ parent \ on: my problem with zaps the_stacker_muse
I zapped your reply instead of leaving a comment (until now). Am I part of the problem?
I assume your reply is related to this from me in #882169:
the few times I zap because someone was helpful, I feel like a more thoughtful reply about how they just changed my life would maybe have been better than a measly 21-100 sats zap.
Mhhh, maybe what I mentioned there wasn't a problem, but wishful thinking. I thought if I didn't have the option to zap, I would think "Oh, I can't zap, so now I need to reply with something so they know I appreciate them, because that's really important to me."
Now that I think about it again, I actually don't think that happens, lol. If I'd truly cared about them knowing that I appreciate them, I would zap and reply, no? One doesn't prevent the other in the cases it actually matters.
So even though what I wrote above sounded like I think zaps prevent engagement with content via thoughtful replies, I actually don't, or at least not anymore. It just allows us to show appreciation more granular?
But then again, one could argue that "more granular appreciation" also means that when you now not only have the choice between 0 (do nothing) and 100 appreciation (reply), but also everything in between, more 100's get turned into something less than 0's get turned into something more ... I don't know, thinking about this breaks my brain, I am no expert in human behavior or psychology, haha
almost forgets to zap
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