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I can live with the extra expense of correcting zaps to slop

152 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 21h

When you consider visibility in the (bah need better jargon) game theory, I think it restores balance.

In contrast to downzapped things, sybil zapped items are more visible so more folks will act on them (maybe even 3x more people will act on them).

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297 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 20h

Yes. But there is no reason to sybil zap if there is boost that is even more effective than sybil-upzapping your own post on your own territory. So from an optimization pov, why would anyone do the trouble of sybil zaps? Just for appearance sake?

We know that there are some stackers with sybil accounts (because they admit it) for their bots but I haven't seen much abuse there. So from the policing the ad-bots perspective, like the L402 bot we have since spamming their own L402 endpoint in... 11 posts thus far (just saw they also spam ~bitcoin, ugh). That's honey-potting stackers and it will enshittify SN if it makes sats - thus my need for making comments expensive (but probably too much), as I see that as a lesser evil than moderation with a button that has no cost.

Either way, right now SN feels vulnerable. We have good discussions downzapped into oblivion over stupid horses and guns

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