1021 sats \ 9 replies \ @jgbtc 24 Jul \ on: Incentivizing Downzapping meta
Sheriffs sound like a bad idea.
Why?
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They don't necessarily get any additional power. "Sheriff" is just a way of sticking with the western motif.
The real rationale for why this works is that it coordinates turn taking and therefor sharing in the costs of punishing bad actors.
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Everyone would still have the power to downzap. "Sheriff" would have about as much meaning as our cowboy hats.
The experimental literature indicates that this can be enough.
You’ve found a complete non issue “it’s more expensive to be the first to downzap so that must mean not enough is being downzapped uhhh So let’s make a bunch of arbitrary authorities official just for fun”.
Not to sound too dismissive but it’s very silly. The instant jump to surrounding yourself with mom and dad police figures who can help suppress all the …… lack of suppression.
It’s a non issue that authoritarian mindsets are trying to spin as a fun cowboy sheriff game. In reality these are known as power users. Bad idea.
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Which is the "complete non issue", spam or lack of downzapping?
If you read what I wrote, you should have noticed that I concluded that we quite possibly don't need to do anything.
Sorry to have triggered you with a discussion of possible solutions to an issue people have been noticing and commenting on.
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