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111 sats \ 30 replies \ @Undisciplined 27 Dec 2024 \ on: What is your favorite type of game to play? gaming
Stacker News is open source. Everyone is free to spin up their own "better" version and show us how wrong we are.
This is great news. Is anyone working on a version where the creator doesn't have to "nerf" themselves to make the game "more fair"?
And I am curious, you said "we". Do you help make the rules on this particular stacker news game?
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I'm not claiming to be part of the rules committee, but I do think this rule set is very elegantly designed. Therefor, I would be included in the "we" that are wrong about it.
There's nothing unfair, in my opinion, about k00b or ek earning large rewards. They do the most work and add the most value, on most days. I can see why it might be bad optics for the people who operate the site to be earning the most rewards, though.
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Is there a rules committee?
I think it's worse than bad optics.
Play it out. What happens if stacker scales, as it is?
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Is there a rules committee?
Not that I know of, but then again, I'm not sure I would know about it.
Play it out. What happens if stacker scales, as it is?
I don't see a problem. What problem do you see?
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Right now it is easy for SOME to to game the board, and VERY easy for a very FEW.
The earlier you are to the game, the easier it is. Sound familiar?
Eventually, it will be very difficult, for MOST to make the rewards board. It will still be easy for FEW.
While MOST send zaps around like they are nothing, hoping for sweet sweet rewards, they will get less and less as time goes on.
FEWER than few, know the true value of sats, and they will choose to play elsewhere.
Sats are valuable. Way more valuable than the way we play with them here, right now.
When the game goes boom, a few walk away, fat and happy. Most will lose their sats and even their "cowboy credits"
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That just reads like catastrophizing based on a lack of understanding about how this system actually works.
The rewards pool scales with usage and people earn more rewards for doing more positive stuff on the site. If some positive activity is currently underrepresented in the rewards, it's easy enough to tweak the formula.
In my mind, the people who leave rewards on the table are the ones who don't appreciate the value of their sats. Most stackers can earn more rewards by zapping larger amounts to the creators of content they value. That means they aren't valuing their own sats or other people's work highly enough.
Not that I know of, but then again, I'm not sure I would know about it.
Sound familiar?
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No. Also, I'm joking. There are only two regular employees of SN. They don't have any committees.