86 sats \ 16 replies \ @k00b 9 Jul \ on: This Day in Stacker News: July 9th meta
When it's posted. I'd like to make it based on when it's zapped though.
I have an idea, then, for how to incorporate "zapping early" with these older posts being rediscovered, for after you make that change.
On any day when a post/comment is a top post/comment, the earliest zapper will be whomever zapped it first on that day. Basically, the clock starts retroactively, conditional on being a top item of the day.
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An addendum just occurred to me. Posts/comments should retain their "top" status until they have a day where they aren't zapped sufficiently. You don't want a post that's popular for two days in a row resetting at midnight and starting the early clock over again.
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What about something that scales the age of the post and how many sats it got.
Really old posts with 0 sats will reward more if they reach top.
I think it's a good idea. My be with it people start posting high value content only. The stuff that's light won't find a place and I'll have no place. SN will probably be a place for plebs only.
Won't it be allow some posts to run longer than a day? This may impact daily writing efforts negatively. People may start writing less if they can get the same results with one post!
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That would only be true if the post were providing people value for multiple days. Why shouldn't posts that provide enduring value be rewarded for doing so?
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What about new content? If the old content keep on generating rewards for multiple days, the new content might be irrelevant or less zapped resulting in demotivating Stackers to post or comment more freely and frequently.
Don't we need more and more content, be it less or more interesting?
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I strongly doubt we'll get to that point. This is Stacker News, after all. There's always new stuff to talk about.
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I also doubt it but possibilities are possibilities. We can't be sure, so I would go with an experimentation. If it works positively, we should embrace. No issues then.
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It's all experimental
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Yes, it is!
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