6 sats \ 5 replies \ @l0k1 18 Oct 2022 \ on: Proposal: personal blog @ SN meta
I think some thinking needs to be done regarding the game theory to prevent scammers from getting cheap publicity. I'd say that would mean default ordering should show ranking by tips, as garbage won't get tipped. Untipped items in other views could be somewhat dimmed perhaps if they are old also, to indicate they are probably not interesting.
I think topic-related posts like megathreads in old school forums would be a great feature, it just needs the possibility of setting the default view to chronological order rather than "hot".
And there could be a separate way to find posts with text versus link only perhaps.
I dunno. Anyway, the current interface design definitely could benefit from some careful design to mitigate the growing number of crossposters from Hive and similar shitcoin forums, from ungracious morons who brag about how much "sats" they earn for their platform praising waffle.
Interesting points; user interface and content discoverabiliy can be modified and probably improved in a lot of way.
However my proposal is just about letting every user to "star" is own content to highlight it in the profile. It is not related to the main page appearance / structure / ranking engine.
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I also like the chronological view idea like the old school forums. It is also very Bitcoinian since Bitcoin teaches us to think about the time chain, ordering events by time.
With regards to the game theory, I think it is essential to deal with the issue of fake upvoting. You can easy send sats back and forth between multiple accounts to upvote your own content without spending any sats. This a circular economy. So how do you detect fraudulent circular tips? I warn against sorting by tip amount.
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yeah, catching circular paths is tricky. It's not an easy thing to write code to detect it. But what you can do is decrease weighting of the vote, not the value, by frequency, which reduces the advantage gained and realigns the incentive.
it is amazing to me how the obvious game cheat teks of scammers is still not well understood. I must be getting old.
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Frequency of what?
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frequency of voting. As in, the votes don't matter as much if the user makes them more often, some kind of time decay factor of effect that declines the more votes they make.
There is also the possibility of tracking the circular paths of funds going into these "votes" as well.
Gaming these kinds of forum micropayment systems has got to a point of an art on platforms like Steem and Hive.
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