60 sats \ 7 replies \ @brave 18 Jan \ on: How do you explain zapping to non-bitcoiners? bitcoin
I call it the perfect way to express emotions on Bitcoin Lightning platforms
Maybe zaps will enter the lexicon just like the term emojis.
Although zaps are really only positive emotions. Maybe with downzaps we can express a negative emotion, but it's a little fuzzy to me how they work.
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Maybe with downzaps we can express a negative emotion
I think I heard term "zonk" for this once. Or maybe it was just @Car and @k00b during one episode of SNL where they tried to come up with something better than "downzap".
but it's a little fuzzy to me how they work.
Afaik, only SN has downzaps. We use these downzaps as a signal that you want to see less similar content by decreasing the trust to stackers who zapped this content before you.
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Right, but do I as a poster/commenter see if I've been downzapped?
(Cue the crowds to come show me what a zonk looks like...)
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Doesn't downzapping lead to posts being outlawed (which I understand to be your posts only show up in wild west mode)?
If so, it'd be neat to experiment with letting a user know that their post violated norms of some sort.
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Doesn't downzapping lead to posts being outlawed (which I understand to be your posts only show up in wild west mode)?
Ah, yes. But it needs to hit a global threshold.
If so, it'd be neat to experiment with letting a user know that their post violated norms of some sort.
There is no norm. It's just individual stackers telling us that they don't like this and want to see less content like this.
You'd have to ask these stackers why they downzapped it. But just like we don't show who zapped who, we also (especially) don't want to show who downzapped who.
So anything like this would have be opt-in. But I think when we allow attaching messages to zaps, we could also allow stackers to attach messages to downzaps—if they want.
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there is no norm.
I wasn't thinking anything so formal, merely the "norm" that if I post an ad for some shitcoin airdrop I will probably end up getting downzapped.
I think attaching notes to downzaps is probably a bad idea. But I think letting a user see that a post or comment has been downzapped and to what extent could provide useful feedback.
I agree there isn't any norm, but SN, like every community has a culture, and there is a fuzzy edge past which people might do a thing that breaches the norm. They don't necessarily need anyone to tell them this but could benefit from a numeric visual aid to show them they are heading toward the badlands.
Also, I think they should definitely be called zonks.
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