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@nemo these are the new "levels" of zapping I am applying to you and to your hidden friend.

1 sat - nice little reply, if is on point and should deserve to be upvoted
10 sats - you make me laugh
21 sats - you make a good meme (not repost mine)
100 sats - you are making a good review of a post and I do not have to do it instead (you save my time and brain cells)
210 sats - you are writing a full meta post with a nice touching story
1000 sats - you are doing something great for SN

Zap codes! I like it

I have this idea for a while but never mentioned it:

I think the lightning strike animation should resemble the zap amount.

So if you zap more, you get a stronger or more lightning strike.

Sometimes, I just zap multiple times just to see more lightning strikes, lol

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OK found it
#259424

Am I wrong?

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To make a post rank higher, it's better if more stackers zap it, yes. The influence of your own sats on a post is logarithmic. So your first sats have the highest impact.

Also consider that if you zap something a lot of sats but everything else not (much), you're creating a high bias towards the thing you zapped. People see that this one thing got a lot of zaps and everything not much. Not sure if that's what you want.

So imo spread your zaps across more items instead of a few high zaps.

For further reading (if you can read SQL), here is the function which sets the amount of votes based on sats after you zapped an item. And here is the item rank view defined.

I also like this from you:

No. On SN must be proof of work in order to get sats.
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So imo spreads your zaps across more items instead of a few high zaps.

I do this very often. I don't want to concentrate my zap only on few comments and then realize that are also more to zap, I zap gradually, and if really deserve more sats, I go back and give more. Or even reserve some sats for the replies, if there are.

Thanks for the explanation.

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if really deserve more sats, I go back and give more

Yes, I do this too!

I really think all this content we create here will become a lot more valuable over time.

When we've got a lot more users (and I mean a lot, like 10x or 100x), old content will be viewed probably more times than it has been so far and will get zapped again.

I sometimes look at old content and think: "Wow, that's really good stuff but it just doesn't have a lot of sats since SN was still very small back then."

But with more and more stackers, more and more stackers will go back and zap these hidden gems. Hopefully, we will also make them more discoverable at the same time and add some incentives to also zap old stuff and not just recent stuff.

But @nemo deletes all his comments so he misses out on this, lol

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wow, I am impressed. This is the longer post by nemo I saw here!
have my sats!

we need to push harder nemo to have these rants

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Oh, no, I have written a lengthy reply even though I started with "will reply in more detail when I'm back home" and I think I lost it by opening SN to search for something while keeping the PWA open (/cc @k00b)

I only wanted to reply to this part:

do consider putting on your adversarial cowboy hat sometime @ekzyis, at least occasionally, it might be good for your future :)

In summary (I really don't want to write all of it again, I think I literally wrote and thought what to write for 20min or something. That's what I get for trying to reply while walking, lol. By the way, also not good from a security perspective, haha), I wrote that I really appreciate your reply and you are right. I used to do this more for privacy, too, not only for security in general - even though privacy is a part of good security.

I'll keep it at this for now. Will reply in more detail when I'm back home :)

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Even if I would know who you are, I will never say anything about. That secret will go into the grave with me.
Like with Satoshi. Many old bitcoiners already know who is but will never say it. Is much better like that.

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just be like @DarthCoin, haha

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Another way to put this is this, I think:

With a lot of sats comes great responsibility

lol

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Yes, sometimes I have the feeling that if I zap too much sats, I encourage that behavior and create that false impression of the word that siggy47 likes it
https://imgprxy.stacker.news/YlVHq5BIquZfjgxBVjIzLoF4dc7r2uk8ntNfdbjVdXQ/rs:fit:600:500:0/g:no/aHR0cHM6Ly9pLnBvc3RpbWcuY2MvOUZwV1g1Z00vYXNzLW1pbGsuZ2lm

I am not against zapping high amounts, but only when is really needed. For example the crowdfunding post for Anita or great meta posts that are the interest of all stackers, the author did a lot of PoW to write it etc.

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I am sure nemo understand my point and not getting mad on me.

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21 sats - you make a good meme (not repost mine)
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These are coming from an old discussion I had with nemo about the algorithm on SN. I can't find it now, the search is not so exact and is giving me more trouble to search than just responding here.

Let me search it better.

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Oh, you delete your comments (among other reasons) because of SNL?

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will be a good meta post for you Natalia.

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I like to keep you in suspense...

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with the wind

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I really don't know what should I write in that guide.

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Dear Nemo, don't be grumpy, as it will cause a sad day in the force.

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