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Yeah I understand what you mean but in this example it is up to territory owner to make that judgement call. And stackers can shame him for not downzapping or moderating the scam.
I don't disagree with the bottom line, at all. I'm not advocating for any coercion or even shame.
What I do advocate against though is to think that profitability - of which you say there is none - stands in the way of taking pay from a scam. In practice, you are almost right, except that the decision to profit off immorality is not something that correlates with unprofitability per se, I'm quite sure that the opposite is true: the upholding of morals may lead to reduced profitability.
And from that perspective, a well kept territory in the red may be better than a poorly kept territory in the black; after all, the red/black only matters to the territory owner, whereas the quality of the territory matters to a whole lot more people.
Therefore I said that there's a suggestion to enshittify, if the profit of the territory owner has a dependency on scams.
. In practice, you are almost right, except that the decision to profit off immorality is not something that correlates with unprofitability per se
Unless a territory has banning powers downzaping the ill-gotten gains can only do so much especially if the scammer has a bigger bag of sats than you.
Expecting people to be altruistic for the greater good of SN is not a good incentive for survival.
Realistically, I agree with you.
But isn't it a shame that not accepting money from scammers is narrated as altruism in a little corner of the internet where more than half the people subscribe to alignment with do-no-evil spiritual and religious movements? It is good to find out again how shallow that too has become in modern society, even in a place full of insane people.
It means: opti is delusional, as hell will freeze over before a stacker will unstack their ill gotten gainz.
What I'm doing is this:
(10*30*0.7)+(500*.21) = 210 + 105 = 215 sats.(50,000*.7)+215 = 35,215 sats.In scenario 2, you can keep the sats, or you can downzap the scammer for 35k sats. You're saying "but I wanna break even", and what I'm asking is: "by profiting from scams?"