453 sats \ 4 replies \ @carlosfandango 11 Jan \ parent \ on: Cowboy Hat Reform meta
This is entirely unscientific but….
People aren’t interested if you have a hat or not when it comes to rewarding your commenting They may be bothered in a cluttered feed when it comes posts and just ignore you.
Reputation carries you further than a chapeau…. but a hat doesn’t hurt if you are new. Best evidenced in the Saloon.
In conclusion; everyone should get a hat, hang on to it, when people know who you it can be hidden but it doesn’t make much of a difference by that point.
Does that make sense?
That actually summarizes my filtering process pretty well. It also affects whether or not I zap a pretty marginal comment.
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I suspect there may be a good portion of blind zapping some content in the ‘hot’ or ‘recent’ feeds based on whether the OP has a hat - the theory being those posts may gain more traction. But I am really not sure.
Having a hat does go some way to informing me if I should read your post… the other is title. But if it’s a link you better have added some value or context. Or it’s no zaps for you!
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If it's a link, I pretty much need to see a cowboy hat and a compelling title and a name I recognize.
Nobody gets blind zaps from me, but if it's not in "hot" or "recent", I'm not going to see it.
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I think we are pretty much agreed on that.
Taking the Wild West angle a touch further; if I rode into town after some time away and there was a newbie, no hat on, quoting some old nonsense from the usual news sources I would walk straight past to the saloon. On the way I pass Sheriff @siggy47 ,his massive hat on and he shouts ‘Hey Carlos, you heard about that story. It’s hilarious. Damn fool Eli Muskrat bought a bar and burnt it down…. tried to sell everyone on fake dog coins.’ I would stop, listen… and probably buy him a drink…
Anyway, I am clearly procrastinating when I should be studying. Apologies!
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