11 sats \ 3 replies \ @Scroogey 19 Oct \ on: How does it make sense to zap a post or comment with just 1 sat? AskSN
If you spend several minutes writing a thoughtful post or comment here, even if you get several hundred sats, that's obviously only a symbolic amount, not representing the true economic value. 1 sat, 10 sats, or 100 sats is basically the same for that purpose.
The absolute amount doesn't matter (as long as it's well below economic significance). What matters is the relation to other users' revenues. We like to compare. Hence the statistics and leaderboard.
There's a tendency for "inflation" here. If we increase the minimum zap amount to 10 sats, soon someone will ask who the cheapskates are that only zap 10 sats.
I don't want to keep up with the Joneses by zapping ever larger amounts.
Well, I'd only say that you need to learn why to zap more to earn more. I also did 1 sat zap for a few days in my starting but I've learnt.
This is the starter pack you need right now.. enjoy..
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Well you are Scroogey.😀 Seriously, there was an account a few weeks ago who lives in Africa who mentioned that he had earned half the daily minimum wage the day before here on SN, which really can't be looked at as just symbolic. 20 single sat zaps are less economically significant than 20 100 sat zaps too.
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