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Is it me or has the signal to noise ratio decreased on SN in the last week? I have used the flag feature for the first time. Maybe this is a sign of the return of the bull market. Do we need to brace ourselves for the hordes of shitcoiners?

There's talk of increasing the cost of posting. Hopefully, that will address it.

I think part of the issue is that we've been zapping content at much larger magnitudes (which I whole-heartedly endorse) and that might be drawing new people to the site. With any luck, they'll assimilate and start adding value once they realize that's how to get the biggest rewards.

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I think down zapping is also good.

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I never think to do that. It is a public service, though, and I applaud you for doing it.

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flagging is a visible FU to the poster

What does it look like to the poster?

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Exactly my question. I don't know. We could test it lol. Flag this post

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They don't see any difference. Their post appears as if nothing happened even if it's outlawed.

The outlaw state is hidden from them too (if they continue to be logged in).

305 sats \ 1 reply \ @nemo 6 Nov 2023

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and the sats goes to SN pool too.

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Exactly!

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I really feel good when I flag with some sats a shity post, because I know that those sats are going back to the posts/users that deserve them.
SN is fucking awesome!

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down zapping

I never knew this is possible. How?

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Click on the three dots above the comment or post and click flag. Then you can downzap

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Ok. Thank you for letting me know.

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There's talk of increasing the cost of posting. Hopefully, that will address it.

There is?

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360 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 6 Nov 2023

Yes, peak pricing to be specific, aka global fee escalation.

@Undisciplined had a really simple version where base cost = num posts in last hour

We could also just raise the base fee. There's also someone zapping nearly every post 10 sats which makes practically every post profitable.

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Oh cool yes now that you describe this I think I read the original discussion on this. Sounds good!

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Yeah, I’ve also flagged a few posts that seemed to be poor attempts at making something clickbaity but just didn’t really fit here

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Need to brush off my writing again this week. We can all be the change we want to see.

Think we were blessed with some great content in October. November might just be a slow month so far. Has been for my brain.

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Yeah, same here.

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I had to flag this one, because I had already zapped the other post.

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I don't see anything on this post. I have no feedback

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Interesting. I see a little flag icon on the post.

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Yeah there is a visual indication when you flag something but apparently the user being flagged doesn't know what is happening.

This reminds me of the good ole bozo filter on blogs. If you have a spammer in your comments you don't block them from posting you just make it so only they see their comments :).

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I don't see one on the post you flagged though.

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Yep, nothing.

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I recall reading somewhere that it takes more than one user flagging something.

@kepford: I added another flag to your post that @Undisciplined flagged. See something now?