115 sats \ 10 replies \ @0b1CoinObi 1 Apr \ parent \ on: Stacker Saloon
I too hope this is an April fools joke as I don't want to waste anymore hot air on this but I see that the rewards page has changed, so it looks like MSM v2 is here for another 31 days.
It's quite obvious that some users are gaming the system.
Which as the name implies, SN has been gamified. I like to interact with comments that interest me, not should I interact, as that won't get me up the zaprankings. I feel the gamification of SN is ruining the experience.
I think the competitiveness will decline quite a bit this month. I'm going to take a much more relaxed approach.
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This thought had crossed my mind and I hope your right. Those that went all out for 31 days, did so in the belief that it would only be for March. Now you've got to do it all over again and maybe May, June, July.
So hopefully it will settle down in the future and the sad try hards might get disillusioned over the long run. One can only hope.
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Some of my habits have probably changed, so I'll be somewhere in between February me and March me.
Fortunately, being a try hard paid off pretty well.
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As you said, the metrics were up, so I can see that they'll pursue with the current experiment until they see that people are getting bored and can't sustain that level of commitment long term.
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I think I really soured on this when I was thinking "hmmm I should have ran the pool out of my own account and got all the zaps and comments assigned to me instead of the other account that has no zaprank standing and then instead of transferring the winnings to stillstacking, I could have zapped him the winnings improving my odds of moving up even more."
I don't want to approach SN driven by perverse incentives but even after I was souring on the format and the incentives I felt compelled by sunk cost to try to at least maintain my top 10 standing.
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Maybe we should join the hidden, so that we can't even see ourselves in the rankings.
It might be useful for SN to allow something like a parent account for people like you and @ek who manage multiple accounts. There shouldn't be a rewards tradeoff between these accounts when it's all you contributing to the site.
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I thought about going into hiding but if I am going to find my million sat madness zen, I need to just not care about the rankings.
What's odd is I did used to get some daily rewards from the survivor pool account which is how I used to pay the difference between what got zapped to the pot and what the account received after fees. I ended up covering the difference on the March Madness pool between what was zapped and what got deposited after fees.
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Since I run the pools out of my account, I was blissfully unaware that I was subsidizing the payout.
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