Understood, and since I'm UTC+8, "day" means night 

It's the way the current day is added to the monthly score. If it's early in the day, it's not very competitive so on a relative basis you're high value. As more people start gaining value it "normalizes" everyone's score for the day.

k00b

I see what you mean about 10 stackers zapping 100 versus 1 zapping 1000.
Just weird to go from nothing to 16 to 38.

expatriotic

Stacker Saloon

saloon

Oh, you missed the old daily rewards by 10 days. We used to reward the best stackers daily. 

Stackers rank higher if they contribute to the site by either a) creating good content or b) zapping good content early

Good content is content that hits the front page and was zapped by many stackers.[^1] The sat amount has some weight but it's not linear per stacker: if 10 stackers zap 100 sats each the content ranks higher than if one stacker zaps 1000 sats even though it's the same sat amount in total.

Does this help?

[^1]: Can also be comments though, comments are also ranked in the same way in each post.

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