51 sats \ 5 replies \ @siggy47 2 Mar \ parent \ on: SN Million Sats Madness: Scarcity or Abundance Mindset meta
You downzap the hell out of the guy ahead of you every time he posts.
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.
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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.
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I probably wouldn't have started with a month long experiment, but I was talking about experimenting with the rewards timing just a few days ago. There are potential incentive issues with a daily rewards schedule. I was proposing layering weekly rewards on top of the daily.
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