Does "the race" strengthen or weaken the signal carried by posts ranked by zaps on the front page?

> In the end, those ignorant to the gaming of the system are paying a 30% tax to the benefit of a few that could be.

I currently think of it as the cost of having the comments that have already been sorted by the zapping efforts of those who do chase rewards.

Perhaps the onboarding or even the frontpage could make it more obvious how to participate in the race.

adlai

what else am I supposed to do with CCs though?

Ideally? Just zap content that is valuable to you. Same with your sats. Someone writes something nice, be decent and zap them. No gamifications required for showing appreciation for content.

The problem is that for the zaps to carry signal and be a meaningful indicator of quality content during discovery, all these additional subsystems like sybil fees have been introduced. And rewards because no one likes 9% tax, and then boosts, and then downzapping, and so on and so on.

All I'm saying is that if the purpose of rewards are a discount to zappers, then every zapper should be rewarded equally. But that's not the case, as zaps are rewarded through artificial inequality. It's a discount to 

 zappers, which I believe is where Darth is coming from in the comparison to state subsidy.

In the end, those ignorant to the gaming of the system are paying a 9% tax to the benefit of a few that could be.

(edit: changed to 9% because that's the effective rate on zaps, the other 21% is actual tax)

How about a new filter for downzaped posts?

0xbitcoiner

> what else am I supposed to do with CCs though?

Ideally? Just zap content that is valuable to you. Same with your sats. Someone writes something nice, be decent and zap them. No gamifications required for showing appreciation for content.

The problem is that for the zaps to carry signal and be a meaningful indicator of quality content during discovery, all these additional subsystems like sybil fees have been introduced. And rewards because no one likes 9% tax, and then boosts, and then downzapping, and so on and so on.

All I'm saying is that if the purpose of rewards are a discount to zappers, then every zapper should be rewarded equally. But that's not the case, as zaps are rewarded through artificial inequality. It's a discount to **some** zappers, which I believe is where Darth is coming from in the comparison to state subsidy.

In the end, those ignorant to the gaming of the system are paying a 9% tax to the benefit of a few that could be.

(edit: changed to 9% because that's the effective rate on zaps, the other 21% is actual tax)