140 sats \ 8 replies \ @k00b 19 May 2022 \ parent \ on: Daily discussion thread
A user who is very active maintains several accounts (at least 5 of them ... they keep adding more). All of these accounts have built up quite a bit of trust by virtue of being quite active and occasionally posting good content.
Today, they posted 10+ meh podcasts and articles, and within 5 minutes of posting them they upvote them from their other accounts ... They basically end up deciding what's on the main page rather than users deciding.
It's good they're doing it because it's making me aware the algo needs improvement and provides the data for me to test new algos ... but it's also sad that I'm allowing them to abuse everyone's attention.
There's a lot I can do to prevent it. Cluster detection in the trust graph or accounting somehow for content users aren't upvoting.
I mean, I've thought about it. It's real anonymous money.
One could scrape the linked posts and do some data crunching to generate leads on interesting content.
Create a few accounts and watch those websites via rss.
Funnel all the sats to the same account.
But I didn't think about boosting the posts!
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For sure, it's just shitty ... The tragedy of the commons is really a tragedy.
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Like crabs in a bucket.
Anyways... think I can authenticate using Polar?
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You should be able to if you connect your nodes to a lnurl-auth supporting interface.
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Is it the content or the boosting that's the problem?
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yeesh... this sounds really exhausting to deal with :'(
everyone trying to get ahead in this attention economy.
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Is the problem that the podcasts and articles are getting 10 or 20 sats upvoted from an account or two with trust, or is the problem that quality posts aren't getting even a half dozen upvotes and on average well under $0.05 (~100 sats) tipped (which, if it they were getting 100 sats, that would cause them to be vaulted up above the posts with $0.01 (~20 sats))?
For the amount of sats airdropped daily (yield), seeing essentially just five or ten upvotes max on most "quality" posts even indicates 99% (or whatever) of visitors are essentially stacking only and not upvoting content they like and want to see more of.
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It’s both. People shouldn’t be gaining an advantage by upvoting their own stuff, and people should be upvoting more stuff.
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