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203 sats \ 4 replies \ @justanumber 12 Oct \ on: Do I Zap TOP content early, or zap my favorites? alter_native

Your last paragraph is more what I agree with. Being rewarded for zapping top content early is something I have never liked. At all! It's very obvious what this creates - people trying to game the system, trying to predict & second guess and zapping what they consider might be popular posts and/or posts curated by popular SN personalities/names, leaving good content by lesser known stackers languishing. This has been discussed previously. This and the million sats madness experiement is what turned me off SN and kept me away from the site for a long time. People should only just zap and comment on what they think is good quality content that they relate to.

122 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek 12 Oct

People should only just zap and comment on what they think is good quality content that they relate to.

I agree. But imo rewards are what distinguishes SN from nostr and why there’s more broad zapping here than on nostr in my experience. This benefits everyone, just not everyone equally as you explained why.

“A rising tide lifts all boats”

11 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 12 Oct

This makes me wonder if stackers would be interested in a "zen mode" where you opt-out of rewards and ranking and every zap goes 100% to the recipient instead of our 30% fee for rewards and to make ranking sybil-resistant. The zaps would still influence your own feed but not have any effect on the feed of other stackers.

This might mess quite a lot with other code though. For eample, maybe the sats from such zaps should also not be shown to others stackers but only to you.

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @justanumber 12 Oct

I like the rewards. I would not opt out. I feel you are over complicating it. Perhaps the best solution is too boring Is there not a more equitable system that discourages the behaviour i wrote about above and encourages people to zap content that actually resonates with them, rather than what they think 'might" be top? We don't actually know what would really be "top" because the zapping behaviour of users trying to get the best result for themselves from the system skews the results.

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @justanumber 12 Oct

The way the rewards system is set up perpetuates elitism. It creates an elite set of users. I strongly suspect new users become disillusioned, disheartened and disengaged and either leave or just exist on the periphery. Or there are ones just gaming the system for sats and don't care how it works. I don't agree with that but, if a better system isnt implemented, then can anyone blame those ppl? I mean, What's the point in spending time creating quality content when users are just zapping the established names because it is more beneficial for them. I actually think SN is shooting itself in the foot and hampering its own success by keeping this format. I went away from SN for a long time because of that and the hyped up MSM fiasco, which I believe just served as a huge distraction from the goal/objective of what SN is trying to achieve (I'm just guessing at that bc I don't actually know what the objective is). I'm just disappointed to return and find that a fairer rewards model with integrity has not been implemented.