8080 sats \ 8 replies \ @quark 5 Mar \ on: Daily Rewards vs Million Sat Madness meta
I know I am not going to get any rewards. But I don't think I am going away from SN. I'm not sure if the quality of the posts is going to be improved with the competition. I don't like competitions in general. But life is like a competition itself. Let's see how the experiment goes this month. If many users leave SN, I'm ok with it. I don't like users that are here only for the rewards.
I hate lotteries at the best of times..
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If one is motivated to be part of SN community for the rewards or this kind of competition, it means that he/she doesn't understand the mission of Stacker News.
Stacker News are the ones running the competition and experimenting with psychological manipulation in the first place.
Has it occurred to you that people might leave because they are not comfortable being experimented on - not because they aren't getting rewards?
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interesting. Adding that experiments with the rewards is not new. It was the random rewards experiment before. It seems they keep experimenting until they find something that works best. I understand. Experiment and analyze is a scientific method that gives good results. I don't see how it could be done without using people in the experiment. We'll see how it goes.
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Yes - in some of the trialled formats.
The OP suggested the MSM is a competition and I am likening it to a lottery.
A number of posters are questioning its value and suggesting it is unfair. I think they would prefer to see the rewards as more directly linked to their efforts on a daily basis rather than waiting for the monthly. I do understand how it works - I just don’t like it.
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I agree, it has the lottery style structure of the descending prize pool with the big prize at the top getting less and less as you go down the ranking. I immediately thought the same when I saw that. But there's also the competition element to it too.
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I'm not sure if the quality of the posts is going to be improved with the competition.
I’m sure that it’ll not be improved at all. There are many stackers who are posting and commenting a lot these days just for the competition, hopping they’ll be ranked higher.
I don’t believe that quantity is equal to quality!
However, I also see that there are good stackers who continue to post as usually, without running behind the rank.
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