77 sats \ 30 replies \ @Scoresby 20 Mar \ on: Million Sat Madness is a Keynesian Beauty Contest meta
Msm is fun, but I do hope we return to our daily scheduled programming (SN rewards roughly how they used to be pre March 2024).
I'm not sure there is a need for the longer time spans. I enjoyed the daily reward schedule because it didn't feel like a race or a competition.
I'm sure I was aware that daily rewards were a competition and that there was a person who got the largest percentage of the rewards pot but it felt much more like that was in tune with what you posted, zapped, and commented.
I never really cared where I ranked in the daily percentages. Usually felt pretty amazed when I got reward sats at the end of the day.
Now that we are all jockeying for position and paying attention to rank, I do think it will feel less marvelous when awards are doled out, despite the amounts being significantly larger.
Maybe this is just a function of paying attention to rank and seeing the rewards people who outrank you garner.
It would be interesting to know what would have happened if there were no leaderboard.
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I also do not like the leaderboard. And is quite misleading.
And leaderboard with "hidden stackers" doesn't make sense. or we are all in hidden or we are all out in the open.
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I only hid myself so that I have no idea if I'm on it or not. I'm 99.9999% certain I won't be anyway but I choose not to look. I don't like the leaderboard for all the reasons I have previously written about (fiat style school competition etc...) We can't beat up on ppl for hiding themselves. It's their choice. The MSM and leaderboard is forced upon us whether we like it or not. So unless you just stay away from SN for a whole month you can't avoid it.
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Leaderboard is like the big sticker chart on the wall at school or the house points system.
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I completely agree. We are competing with the invisibles. They can see us by we cant. I wonder if that is a physical MSM, visibles would be losers from the get go.
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As one of the invisibles, I think I agree with you. The main reason I don't go visible is that I don't like advertising how many sats I've stacked.
But perhaps there is a case to be made that if I want a part of the competition I should not be able to stay hidden. I can make it visible.
It will be very frustrating if the top 3 slots are all hidden when the competition concludes. Not good for morale.
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Most likely, two of the top three are k00b and kr, who are both ineligible, and the other one is siggy.
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Pretty sure SN affiliated are excluded from the leaderboard.
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@grayruby told me that they weren't. They're excluded from the competition, but they are on the board.
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I was wrong. Ek clarified the other day they are not on the board. I @ you but I dont think you saw it.
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Also, it helps that we can see roughly how many sats we might be getting back. Maybe there's a version of this where we can see our estimated rewards without seeing the leaderboard.
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Soon I will let my "high position" on the board to others.
It was fun indeed.
Weather is getting better so I have to go back building that damn citadel.
After a heavy winter must be a mess there.
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Now that we are all jockeying for position and paying attention to rank
It's like school, making everything a competition and pitting you against your peers. It's a no thanks from me
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I think it's fun, but I appreciate that it's not what others are looking for. Someone mentioned making experiments like this opt-in. That seems reasonable.
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