“Interesting psychological effect of zaps: Feels dumb to waste your time writing stuff that won’t be good enough to earn them. Having a post get zero zaps sends the signal to your brain: this was a waste of my time.”
Zapping seems to have slowed down dramatically. Initially everyone was zapping me like crazy but I haven't had a zap in days now. Maybe I just say a lot of dumb stuff.
Many people zapped for the fun of it to test zaps out. To get zaps you could to get into conversations with people that are zapping and also contribute content others find valuable.