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20 sats \ 9 replies \ @Undisciplined 28 Dec 2024 \ parent \ on: Assmilking is a topic that is poisonous. meta
Explain how zapping good content makes the problem worse. Please have more detail than just "it makes the rewards pool bigger".
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.
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Oh, plagiarism! Disgusting habit, isn’t it. You just cannot zap those accounts.
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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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