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0 sats \ 20 replies \ @DavidoftheDesert OP 27 Dec \ parent \ on: New thoughts on the leaderboard and rewards pool alter_native
Just depends on how long stackers are willing to stick around and be taken from. Maybe the devs will make a change and stacker can actually grow. Never know.
Show some receipts that people are being "taken from". I don't like all the vague accusations.
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I don’t see much “just taken from”, what I see is that there are a lot of us both giving and taking, depending on the conversation. I don’t see a majority of takers out there.
Maybe i am just blind and non-discerning. There does seem to be a lot of talk of “assmilking” going on.
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Since k00b subsidizes the rewards so heavily, most of us are net receivers of sats.
Hopefully, the assmilking talk dies down soon. It's annoying. I promise that isn't what SN was always like.
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There is a good reason why "ass-milker" is coming up often now. I didn't get it at first. Now I see, it is here to help us see the truth that not many want to look at yet.
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its in the code. if you have seniority, its easier to win sats from the crowd. its pretty simple.
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That is not what's in the code, as far as I understand it. Having higher trust confers benefits, but trust and seniority are not the same thing.
Also, trust doesn't directly earn you more rewards. It makes your zaps more meaningful in where content is ranked. High trust primarily benefits the recipients of zaps.
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Perhaps the problem is in how you earn the trust. Is that very transparent?
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It is transparent, but also not ideal. This post probably gives the best sense of what the problem is.
You gain trust with other stackers by zapping the same content as them. Then, your average trust score is used to weight your zaps on content.
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Your proposed solution would spread the rewards out on a time basis, but the problem would still remain: gaming the system. I don’t think that is avoidable, someone will always try gaming the system because that’s what people do.
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It was a while ago. I don't even remember proposing a solution.
Yes, people will always attempt to game systems, and some will succeed. I think the reason Stacker News works so well is that it's easier to just earn the rewards honestly.
There's low salience in behaving in an underhanded fashion.
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This is what I cannot understand about the people complaining about assmilking parasites. Don’t they understand that no matter what you do to change the system the assmilkers parasites freeloaders freeriders will never go away. If you get rid of the current bunch, another group will just pop up to do their thing. Both complaining and discouraging will do nothing in the long-run to end the problem.
stackers have outlawed this. turn on wild west mode in your /settings to see outlawed content.
Sure. If you know how to read code. Not for me. I know some people who are good at that though.
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Okay. Like I said, I am clueless. Doesn't change what I have seen.
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stackers have outlawed this. turn on wild west mode in your /settings to see outlawed content.