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31 sats \ 44 replies \ @Undisciplined 27 Dec 2024 \ on: Assmilking is a topic that is poisonous. meta
When in doubt, the downzap button is right there. Don't hold back.
This is absolutely the right message. Be the change! If good creators aren't getting as much attention as you think they deserve, zap them more and share their stuff.
Elevating good content is another way of making it harder to game the system.
and mute
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I never mute anybody! If I don’t like it, I will look and forget. If it is really unlikable, I will not open those posts. I can do it myself without the help of the software or centralized authority! I like to make my decisions.
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I'm 90 percent sure @DarthCoin has muted me lol
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lucky you
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He gets emotional about Liquid
Anyone who endorses Liquid is a statist or shitcoiner according to Darth and his army of NPCs
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Not even biting on this one!
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lol
me too
update: I belong to a Telegram group that is more Liquid centric. Most of the users are not familiar with Lightning or Nostr. It's interesting meeting people from different communities.
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Huh.
I had no clue there were liquid-centric bitcoiners communities that aren't familiar with LN.
interesting.
I guess he has made the executive decision on your posts and comments, then.
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I tried to be civil with him then I gave him a taste of his own medicine
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I have found that medicine is always bitter.
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I've only muted one "person" and I think it was actually a chat bot that was spamming my comments. After many irritating interactions, I decided that I'd be happier not seeing those replies and was confident that I wouldn't miss out on anything substantial.
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Sounds like a solid decision. Not Liquid!
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sounds like you are biting lol
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Maybe, just nibbling.
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Yep, although I've only used that feature very sparingly.
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downzap in fact is also feeding the assmilkers... all sats are going to SN pool and back to them.
The solution is no leaderboard, no rewards.
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Yes, I can understand that problem. There may be no solution that avoids feeding them if you also want to reward good efforts.
To eliminate all rewards would, in essence, eliminate a lot of people from SN who work for rewards and want them. This is the problem, the conundrum that he developers face.
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That's partially correct. It goes to rewards, but their share decreases, so they should end up with less. That's not a guaranteed outcome, though.
Your "solution" is like shooting yourself in the face to remove a blemish.
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You are also part of the problem: you are one that is zapping assmilkers and supporting them (because you also want to be on the leaderboard).
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Ok, well, tough shit for you then.
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I don't give a shit anymore...
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You look well armored, too. With armor you could wade through the stuff.
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I think that we are are all part of the problem and part of the solution, depending on what our goals for this are. I also don’t think that there is a human world where you will ever be able to avoid these creatures, assmilkers freeloaders freeriders parasites!
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I love it!!!!! Rotflmao :) I just hope that the downzap works as advertised. I did one by mistake once when I first started, but haven’t since then.
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I have and will continue to listen. He has a lot to say.
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Yes, I also understand it is up to each individual participant, much like enlightenment. Only the individual gets enlightened, contrary to what the lefty/Marxist/socialist/communist/murderers think or say.
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The problem is called freebooting and no, zaps do not fix it. If anything, zaps makes it worse.
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Explain how zapping good content makes the problem worse. Please have more detail than just "it makes the rewards pool bigger".
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I guess if someone sees rewards as a problem there is not a cure or a solution.
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Not necessarily. The rewards could, hypothetically, be structured in a way that leads to really perverse outcomes. I just haven't been able to ring an explanation out of anyone about how this rewards system is doing that.
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That may be because it isn’t causing perverse incentives. I don’t see them either. The only thing I see is that the parasites do sometimes infest the body.
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Actually, I just looked up what he's talking about and it's that people can be rewarded for posting other people's content as though it were their own, or just reposting it without permission.
I know people do this, but it doesn't strike me as a huge deal. SN could probably make a flag or something for content like that.
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Doesn’t it give you a warning when you post duplicates and similars? I don’t post if i see someone else posting the same thing. I have over posted when there are only a few minutes between their and my posts. But other than that, I don’t see it happening very much.
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The concern is more about grabbing stuff from other sites, but I do recall someone copying the content of another post and posting it as their own.
What if the content aggregator is not the original author? Nothing. Who cares.
But what if they also get paid directly to aggregate others content? And on a website that has a leaderboard, a rewards pool, and non-discerning users and you get... ass milkers 🤗
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Do you see a lot of that? I'll admit to being fairly bad at picking up on it.
Unless the original authors are on Stacker News, I don't really care. Of course, I'd prefer attribution be given, but sharing the content is not without value.
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Yes, I also understand it is up to each individual participant, much like enlightenment. Only the individual gets enlightened, contrary to what the lefty/Marxist/socialist/communist/murderes think or do! Damn collectivists!
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