40 sats \ 21 replies \ @Satosora 18 Oct \ on: Optimal Zapping on Stacker News meta
Man, I have been thinking about this for a while.
But I have noticed there are quite a few more sat farmers here now.
I didn't really think about it in other conversations about the sat farmers who are gaming the rewards system, but if real Stackers would zap more it could deter them.
Those sat farmers are exploiting an inefficiency that stackers created, by not zapping as much as the rewards system is incentivizing.
As for other sat farmers, Stackers need to be more diligent with their zaps.
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Yes, that is what I am thinking.
We have gotten used to a system that didnt have these farmers for a while, so wwe have become complacent.
We need to start calling out sat farmers and downzapping.
Maybe the top 20 should form a committee to talk about this?
I heard from Darth that a lot happens behind the scenes.....
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What I do is just downzap low quality content a couple of sats.
I figure that's small enough that if I'm wrong, then it's no harm no foul. It's also small enough that I don't hesitate to do it.
The outlawing rule gives more weight to the number of downzappers than the size of the downzap.
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Interesting.
I will have to keep that in mind.
Downzapping hasnt been my forte, but I should start doing it.
I feel I do have some obligation to the community, as we all should.
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I'm still kicking myself this week for not downzapping a post that I probably should've when I first saw it pop up.
Normally I wouldn't care much but it got like 25k sats for just copy-pasting to SN with nice looking markdown, and none were forwarded to the author, who is on SN.
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Which post was that?
I kick myself all the time about posts.
There are some people I know that are sat farming, but if everyone gives them a few sats, their posts rise.
So....that means his posts are relevant, right?
Or is everyone giving sats because of the algorithm?
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Dang, that's pretty egregious.
I think posts like that do need to be called out. I've seen people call them out in the comments and in the saloon.
I'm really bad at catching stuff like that, but I'll downzap 'em hard if someone else catches it.
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Im slow at catching that kind of stuff, too.
I feel I know a certain crowd of people here, all the newcomers and stuff, I am a bit reserved about.
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Sort by top posts -> zaprank -> for the week, and test yourself, see if you can spot the one I'm talking about.