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How do the HOT and TOP page rankings work?
10 sats \ 8 comments \ @n01 4 Dec 2024 alter_native
I have made posts that have received a relatively small amount of engagement that I have seen appear somewhere on the hot page and then top page later on.
I also have had posts with over 100 comments and a decent amount of zaps that did not end up making it up the page. Where there other posts on there with fewer zaps and far less comments.
How does this work? Does it depend on which stackers interact? Am I getting downzaps? If I was downzapped, is there a way to know? When is a post "outlawed".
I really appreciate any insights you all have in this. Thanks so much for your help.
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11 sats \ 7 replies \ @k00b 4 Dec 2024
Answer should be in here: https://stacker.news/faq#ranking--influence-on-stacker-news
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0 sats \ 6 replies \ @n01 OP 4 Dec 2024
Thank you. I read through this. I didn't see anything about downzaps. Did I miss something? Is there a way to know if I have received downzaps on a post?
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11 sats \ 5 replies \ @k00b 4 Dec 2024
Did I miss something?
Nah, looks like it's not in the faq. We have help text in the downzap dialog.
Basically, downzaps are just zaps in reverse. Assuming an item has 0 sats worth of zaps, after ~3 median trusted stackers downzap a post, or one high trusted stacked spends a lot on a downzap, it gets outlawed until other stackers zap it back in-law.
Is there a way to know if I have received downzaps on a post?
Nope.
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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @n01 OP 4 Dec 2024
Thank you. So if I see 1000 sats, it could have been I received 2000, and got 1000 down and I wouldn't know how the number got there, right?
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 4 Dec 2024
If you see 1000 sats, it received 1000 sats. Even if it got a 10000 sat downzap, you'd still see 1000 sats. Downzaps are not reflected in the display of sats, because they just indicate what the OP/item earned.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @n01 OP 4 Dec 2024
That makes sense. Thank you for the clarification. It seems like one individual with deep pockets can probably pretty easily make something way less visible, completely anonymously, right?
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11 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 4 Dec 2024
If they are downzapping things that other people are zapping, they lose trust and their downzaps become ineffective overtime.
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206 sats \ 0 replies \ @n01 OP 4 Dec 2024
That makes sense. Thanks for your time. I'm super grateful that smart people like you make this possible. I love it here.
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