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TIL: You can get a cowboy hat by downzapping

1578 sats \ 27 comments \ @SimpleStacker 18 Mar meta

I feel like a true wild west renegade. Vigilante mode: enabled

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123 sats \ 9 replies \ @kepford 18 Mar

Downzapping FTW!

55 sats \ 8 replies \ @Undisciplined 18 Mar

I so rarely downzap, but I think it's very important.

Maybe I should think through what my downzapping standards should be.

23 sats \ 7 replies \ @ch0k1 19 Mar

What's downzap?

31 sats \ 6 replies \ @Undisciplined 19 Mar

It's an option in the little dots there by the cowboy hats and time since posting.

What it does is decrease the rank of a post. You can spend sats to signal that you think a post is very low value and should have less visibility.

23 sats \ 3 replies \ @ch0k1 19 Mar

Yeah, I've seen it in the menu but never used it . Do you think the negative vote can be more effective in determining and differentiating the quality content from the mediocre one?

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 19 Mar

I think it's mostly used to combat various types of damaging content, more so than down ranking mediocre content.

23 sats \ 1 reply \ @ch0k1 19 Mar

So does this mean it has a bigger impact or priority on a post than the zap?

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 19 Mar

For relatively small downzaps it might be an equivalent effect.

The big difference is that enough downzaps cause a post to be "outlawed". Only stackers who enable "wild west" mode can see outlawed posts.

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22 sats \ 1 reply \ @Oialt 19 Mar

Damn I was hoping it would take zaps away and give them to me. Yes, I see no problems with this system.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 19 Mar

Not directly. Downzaps go into the reward pool. so you'll get some of it back.

64 sats \ 6 replies \ @carlosfandango 18 Mar

Build people up…. Not knock them down…

Except 5hitcoiners, and AI, and bots, and schills, and influencers, and nym-itators…. In fact ‘kill ‘em all! Lol

32 sats \ 3 replies \ @Natalia 18 Mar

Build people up…. Not knock them down…

well said, don't "waste" the sats, even they go to the reward pool.

10 sats \ 2 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 18 Mar

Hot take: I think the only way to earn a hat should be through downzapping.

26 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker OP 18 Mar

Maybe down zappers can get a black cowboy hat and up zappers can get a white one

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 18 Mar

Or simply changing the hat style, downzapping was the norm and upzapping had a feather 😂

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 18 Mar

😂😂😂😂😂 now you understand my daily struggle?

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 18 Mar

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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Natalia 18 Mar

what if I told you that the hat doesn't matter - the way to win is not to play. 👀

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @expatriotic 19 Mar

Has hat, hides hat 👀

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @_stacktoshi 19 Mar

TIL about downzapping

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @watchmancbiz 19 Mar

downzapped 🤣

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Turdinthepunchbowl 18 Mar

What exactly happens when something is down zapped? Do those funds go to the rewards pool? Does a poster know they have been down zapped? Just curious. I have earned a cowboy hat by down zapping before haha but never wonder it's impact other than ranking prioritization.

60 sats \ 0 replies \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears 18 Mar

Yup. From the "what is a Downzap" faq that's available when you downzap someone:

downzaps are just like zaps but cause items to lose ranking position
downzaps also reduce trust between you and whoever zaps it so you'll see less of what they zap in the future
all sats from downzaps go to rewards