pull down to refresh
31 sats \ 9 replies \ @siggy47 2 Mar freebie \ parent \ on: SN Million Sats Madness: Scarcity or Abundance Mindset meta
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?
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.
reply
reply
How exactly do downzaps factor into all this?
reply
reply
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?
reply
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.
reply
But you're missing that you get credit for zapping quality content too. Remember that it's extremely non-linear. If you zap the person ahead of you enough to move up from 2nd to 1st in post zapping, it could more than offset the additional reward the person ahead of you gets because you zapped him.
I don't think they're letting us see the granular rankings: i.e. 3rd in comment zapping. That should cut down on attempting to game the rankings, it will certainly cut down on the effectiveness of gaming the rankings.
reply