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If we make it through the maze we get the cheese. They're toying with your brain chemistry.
Yeah, but I want the cheese.
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I love the way you goad him on haha
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And you get to see who's ahead of you. No more incentive to zap quality content. No matter how good the posts, how hard will you zap the guys above you, especially if you're near the top or on the bubble?
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No more incentive to zap quality content.
That's how you get the cheese, though. It would only work if you cartelized, but cartels always fail.
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You can be a Lee Harvey Oswald lone gunman in the book depository or the grassy knoll armed only with your downzapper. And, cartels can work pretty well. OPEC brought the US to its knees.
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How exactly do downzaps factor into all this?
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You downzap the hell out of the guy ahead of you every time he posts.
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There's some fun game theory to think through here. Downzapping will get expensive and the leader has more incentive to downzap whoever's behind him.
I think we're going to learn just how incentive compatible @k00b's rules are.
Btw, does the downzapper's downzap count towards their rewards as though it were a zap?
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I think so. You don't even have to go as extreme as downzapping to see potential problems. Let's say you're close to winning the million sats. The guy in front of you just posts. In your heart, it's a great post. Ordinarily maybe you'd zap him a 1000 sats. But here, it might cost you a million to honestly reward his content. Or, same situation, and you're on the bubble. #65. You've been posting and zapping all month. Do you zap that guy the way you should and lose all those sats? I see the mal incentives being far worse because of the extremes. You could get a million sats or lose a month's worth of rewards.
So many options and paths… mmmm … 🧀
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116 sats \ 4 replies \ @siggy47 2 Mar
You can even down zap the guy above you, even if you like his post, if you want to WIN!!!
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I hadn't thought of that, and it could be used to play dirty. I'll just keep doing what I was doing. Zapping and posting good content.
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 3 Mar
The honorable way. It's weird for bitcoiners to rely on trust!
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lol I don’t even trust myself!
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Oh boy you’ve really covered all the angles here! Good luck!
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