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Zap to Zero Day 11

Do you sometimes wake up and think: "I really want to drink some Coca-Cola."? That's how sugar addiction must feel like.
(up to 1k sats to the person who can explain who or what Swim is or means in this context.)

Satistics

DateSpentStacked (Rewards)PostsCommentsRewarded
2023-12-2813k8808 (n/a)235n/a
2023-12-2916.1k15.6k (5222)352
2023-12-3010.8k9752 (7026)141✍️
2023-12-3120.5k17.9k (4379)561
2024-01-0112.5k10.7k (7684)347✍️
2024-01-0216k19.5k (9353)636✍️
2024-01-0315.9k15.6k (6729)246
2024-01-0411.4k11.4k (3954 4093 4131)338✍️
2024-01-0511.3k11.4k (3954 4092)141?
2024-01-0666916282 (3665 3954)038✍️
2024-01-0780538503 (1219 3665)320✍️
2024-01-08TBDTBD (1219)TBDTBD
@Undisciplined raised a good question yesterday:
This series could serve as something like a how-to for new stackers. It's really shows what using the site well looks like.
Btw, why did your zapping surge so dramatically for a few days and then drop back down?
Good question! Was asking myself the same. But I think it's related to low rewards the previous day and thus not having so much to spend the following day. I also wasn't as active the past days so also didn't got zapped so much during the day.
However, I also mentioned that I am confused about my rewards:
But I just noticed that I might have made an error in my chart. I am still getting confused if I am counting the rewards towards the day on which I received the notification or for which day I earned them.
But in the table, I am counting the rewards towards the day on which I received the notification. But the chart doesn't reflect that. It's low on days on which I spent a lot of sats and high when I didn't spend so many sats for some reason, lol
So I double-checked my table and noticed that there is an indeed error: from Day 8 to Day 9, I somehow have forgotten the rewards from 2023-01-05. And Day 10 was then the "double day" since I switched to writing the post early in the morning of the next day. Classic off-by-one error:
I fixed that now. Don't ask me how long this took, lol.
Updated chart:
@elvismercury also had multiple good questions yesterday:
Here's a double-meta question for you to entertain at your leisure:
What have you learned from doing a number of these deep and excellent posts; and what SN tools would help you do them better? How could those tools help the larger SN ecosystem?
I guess that was three questions, sorry.
It strikes me that this is a really nice dogfooding example of using SN in a way that it's not totally friendly toward, but that is incredibly high value and interesting. I'm curious how this has stirred up your mind.
These questions were so good that I couldn't reply so far. He deserves a better answer than a low-effort reply written in a few minutes since I went to a birthday party in the afternoon yesterday. However, I will simply reply here now:
1. What have you learned from doing a number of these deep and excellent posts?
I learned that I still like writing very much. I also learned that I also want to kick myself in the balls (like @siggy47 for writing "Satasho Nakamoto" yesterday [0]) for not starting this earlier. I already knew for so long that I like writing very much since I even wrote a lot while I was still in school. I still remember how a teacher in elementary school told me that this story about a fox is very good and it's way longer than they expected us to write [1].
I also learned that it's important (as I also kind of knew already) to just get started. You can improve later. This thing here started as a "game" and now it's helping me to get up early in the morning to not lose my streak. I can be a very competitive person, especially with myself. If I have well-defined goals that aren't too far-fetched, I can basically get myself to do anything (as probably everyone if they are being honest with themselves). My biggest problem is just to stay consistent since at some point, I kind of forget how much this consistency improved my life so far. Then I fall back to old bad habits and find out how bad it was, lol.
So I would say, "knowing something" versus "actually doing it" is still a big difference. It's like reading a ton about exercising but do you actually know how exercising feels if you've never done it? I would also say that I am pretty well aware of what my problems are and what I have to do about them. But as a famous ASMRtist once said during this ramble:
I think almost everybody is tired, aren't they? Are you tired? I am tired.
I don't know, maybe that's like the life secret: get enough sleep, drink water.
And I don't know why we don't do these things, that's the big mystery to me.
And I also learned that I still struggle with taking compliments like "deep and excellent posts" seriously. I think I have so big trust issues that I actually like it more when people are mean to me. That's when I feel like they are being honest for once, lol [2].
She also said a lot of other inspiring stuff in there. I hope this quote inspired you to watch the full video even if you don't get ASMR.
2. What SN tools would help you do them better?
I guess I evaded that question with my previous answer by providing all kind of answers that all actually have nothing to do with writing this stuff on SN, lol
But what I can say is that switching between "write" and "preview" can be annoying. I use it to check markdown formatting and if I uploaded the correct images. Especially scrolling all the way up to click the button and then scrolling all the way down (and clicking on "view more") can be exhausting. I think I basically learned how to rely on my markdown formatting reading skills like Cypher reads the Matrix.
Being able to search for something on SN using inline text commands (like on Github) or a keyboard shortcut would also be very nice. But for this to be useful, we have to improve our search itself first, for example with this.
I can also think of more formatting options like collapsible sections (for spoilers or just long sections) or image positioning to be useful.
3. How could those tools help the larger SN ecosystem?
I think with more writing features, we could attract more long-content creators. More people using SN as their blog, more people writing SN exclusives etc.
I also think that stackers like original content with a lot of PoW in it the most which is basically what long-content creators produce.
There might be more to it but that's all I came up with so far.

Recent Superzaps

I am no longer needlessly limiting myself to stuff from yesterday. I can use this series to just promote any content I like - no matter if old or new. So with "recent" I indeed don't mean that the content was created recently. I mean that my (super)zaps were done recently.

1. Bitcoin Stack Exchange: Should we more proactively act against bad questions?

@Murch posted this link to the question in the title on the Bitcoin (Meta) StackExchange. @Murch is a prolific contributor there and I am glad that he linked this question on SN since it was an interesting read.
In essence, the inquirer mentioned that they are concerned that valuable information might be harder to find for a visitor if there are too many poor questions and answers and that this might create a negative feedback loop:
I'm concerned valuable information is harder to find for a visitor and good contributions are not put forward as much as they would deserve compared to the rest of the content. I think this may create a negative feedback loop: if what's put forward to new visitors is lower quality content, they are less inclined to start contributing good questions and answers. The same goes for keeping active contributors interested. To be honest, the state of the landing page is sometimes quite depressing.
@Murch had some good answers to that which I am not going to mention here since this post isn't meant to replace reading the posts that I link to, lol.

2. Bitcoin Learning Resources

@siggy47, the founder of ~bitcoin_beginners, was inspired by @davidw's incredible Privacy Directory (why no link though?) to have no mercy with freebies and lead them further down the bitcoin rabbit hole. Kicking and screaming will probably only make it worse.
There were some books in there that I didn't know about yet so I might have to reconsider that I am no longer a bitcoin beginner. Would make sense since I was a freebie not long ago, too.

3. Should "stackers" be capitalized?"

@elvismercury asked a question to share his pain with us. He can never decide if he should use "Stackers" or "stackers".
I have to admit that I never asked myself this question until this post was created:
I never thought about this. I just used "stackers" like "people" or "users" so always lowercase.
But now I do. Thanks.
you are now breathing manually

4. What's the most extreme thing you've done outdoors, or tried to?

@Fabs asked us a simple question but the answers indeed did blow my mind in several kind of ways.
For example, @Turnspit_Dog shared with us here (without doxxing themselves) that he teaches rich people how to live like poor people and makes them pay for it:
Without doxxing myself, I've demonstrated all my skills for a worldwide TV audience numerous times.
I've taught and consulted on various preparedness and survival topics for most of my life. I've even lived off the grid in a few disaster events for weeks on end.
I jokingly tell all my friends that I teach rich people how to live like poor people, and they pay me for it.
@Fabs wanted to know more and kept asking questions which @Turnspit_Dog more or less willingly answered, much to my amusement and piquing my interest.

Challenge of the Day

Drink enough water. Get enough sleep. Don't consume too much sugar - whatever that means for you.

Song of the Day

You left the topic, you wish that I quit Deep down you know that you'll never be me You're wasting your time, you're wasting your energy You say I'm everything you despise, everything you don't like Open my eyes to see yours fixated on mine
On October 15, 2021, the band announced a change in name to Rain City and secured an agreement with the independent record label Thriller Records. This transition culminated in the formal adoption of the name Rain City Drive. In 2022, Rain City Drive and the reformed Slaves, featuring Jonny Craig, emerged as distinct entities.
As a stacker once put it nicely:
What a terrible name LMAO I can see why they changed it ahahahah

The temporary end. See you on the front page!

[0] Okay, it wasn't yesterday but it was too funny to not include it here. Well done @siggy47! You made multiple days of mine.
[1] If anyone knows, it was a story about the "Findefuchs". We should write a (short) sequel. Guess I already liked foxes when I was in elementary school.
[2] I know that's not a good thing and I should work on that but as I mentioned, I know this and I (think I) know how to work on that and I already worked on it since it has already gotten a lot better. I just still get this feeling sometimes. So much, that I often forget to say "Thank you @elvismercury, I appreciate your feedback, taking the time to write it and especially your questions since you motivated me to look up this old but gold ASMR ramble! I might even write a post once about all the good stuff she said in there."
Great stuff and a lot to take in - love the insight. Especially your thoughts on long form posts..
The only use I’m aware of swimming that isn’t water related is Someone Who Isn’t Me. (Don’t ask how I know)
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wow deep 👀
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Need to wait for more zaps on this post before I can give you 1k sats lol
update: here is your first payment
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Lol. I don’t really deserve it but thanks. I would forward it on to my buddy who used to use the term but he’s no longer with us. ‘Heading out to see a man about a dog..’ was another of his which was a cover for him going off to do something he shouldn’t..
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182 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek OP 8 Jan
I don’t really deserve it but thanks.
but he’s no longer with us.
Sorry to hear that, hope he had a good life (you obviously don't have to answer that, especially if that's not true)
‘Heading out to see a man about a dog..’ was another of his which was a cover for him going off to do something he shouldn’t..
Oh, didn't know that one yet
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He was a ‘character’ and certainly lived a full life if not necessarily a good one….
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Here's another nice thing: this series of updates and thoughts is the highlight of SN at this point. It's given me so much to think about. One immediate thing intersects a point you made:
I also learned that it's important (as I also kind of knew already) to just get started.
I already know this. I am the person who the people I work with would quote on the topic. And yet I still don't do it enough, or act like I believe it. It's like one of those papers on AI where the experts are too conservative every year, and then think to themselves: well, we've been too conservative for five years in a row, so this time I will definitely not be too conservative and they're still too conservative.
Act. And the world will deform to reflect your action. Jesus, it's the deepest lesson. Thanks for the reminder.
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Act. And the world will deform to reflect your action. Jesus, it's the deepest lesson. Thanks for the reminder.
No worries, also thanks for the questions so I can remind myself about it again haha
It's only Day 11 and this went from a simple comment in the saloon about a "new game" (to which I thought I am late) to whatever this is and it keeps evolving. Already have plans what I am going to improve tomorrow.
This is the next deepest lesson probably: Continue to improve yourself, even if it's just 0.0001% every day.
My (probably totally overambitious) plan is to fill the front page with only posts from me lol.
So far I think the maximum was 2 or 3 posts from me that were at the front page at the same time. And maybe only top 10 should count.
1664 sats \ 4 replies \ @Fabs 8 Jan
Oh boy! I've been mentioned for the first time!
You better be sure that I'm gonna ask 'till it hurts, for it's what gives the best answers most of the time ;)
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Being mentioned in an @ekzyis update is like getting invited to the Met Gala.
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586 sats \ 2 replies \ @Fabs 8 Jan
Gotta admit; It even turned me on a little, made my heart beat faster... Blush on face oh God I'm lucky you guys aren't seeing me right now!
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lol I am going to mention this comment tomorrow maybe
I was actually worried that people might not like it to be mentioned here!
You must not have been zapping top posts and comments or just not doing it fast enough, because you spent more than me yesterday, but got less reward share.
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481 sats \ 12 replies \ @ek OP 8 Jan
Mhh, yeah, I was probably not fast enough or it wasn't what everyone else liked or both, lol
These are my placements. Mind sharing yours?
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you earned 2101 sats (2.23%) #5 in comment zapping for 1568 sats #14 in post zapping for 533 sats
Ha! Maybe you will run out of sats if you keep late zapping fringe content.
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My Zap to Zero posts seem to be my lifeboat lol
Can't forward too many sats though haha
But that's exactly how the game theory of SN should work:
If you're low on sats (or don't get zapped a lot), you better start writing good (or better) content!
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if you're low on sats, you better start writing good content!
I'm actually writing on the art of stacking, with all my hacks! originally I just wanted to cover the basic ways in stacking, like the one you mentioned, but then I realized that there are many other hidden valuable things other than sats 👀
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Awesome! I've got a similar post simmering, but I'd rather keep putting it off and reading other people's thoughts on the subject.
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I would try it finish it this week:)
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278 sats \ 6 replies \ @ek OP 8 Jan
Reading this almost makes me want to be a freebie :)
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but being a freebie or not doesn't really change many things?
and even worst, people can easily find all your freebie content: https://stacker.news/ekzyis/freebies
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but being a freebie or not doesn't really change many things?
there were multiple meanings to what I wrote, you found one :)
and even worst, people can easily find all your freebie content: https://stacker.news/ekzyis/freebies
Yes, I used that link to find my latest freebie post here:
There were some books in there that I didn't know about yet so I might have to reconsider that I am no longer a bitcoin beginner. Would make sense since I was a freebie not long ago, too.
I had to think of you since I had to search for that link haha
update: Wow, you never were a freebie on SN.
What I got mentioned in something on SN? Cool.
I grew up in the south and we used to drink a gallon of sweat tea each day. I moved away a long time ago, but when I go back home to visit, I cannot fathom how I lived off that syrupy liquid.
But I now do know why all my friends have to check their blood sugar regularly.
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51 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 8 Jan
It'd be interesting to see what your results would be like if we didn't handicap your zapping rewards. We give ourselves 1/5th the rewards of the lowest reward tier. Your zapping rewards would be ~10x higher otherwise.
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Oh, I forgot that I saw something like this in the code base the last time I looked at rewards more closely. Interesting!
I also forgot to include this comment in some way in today's post since I planned to do this.
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I haven't gotten any takers on my anti-campaign zap to 1M. I think people just want to see you give away your sats.
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It's day 11 and I think I am still giving them away too easy
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In the early days of Nostr Derek Ross was trying to do something similar one Friday night, he was zapping everyone (I forget the amount maybe 1000 sats) until his wallet was empty but everyone kept zapping him and loading him up with sats so it took until 2 in the morning or so for him to zap them all away.
This is essentially my idea. You try to zap them away and we try to load you back up causing you to zap more, causing us to zap more.
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This is essentially my idea. You try to zap them away and we try to load you back up causing you to zap more, causing us to zap more.
Haha yes but in the end, I think I win more because the content that I want to see gets continuously rewarded.
I am like a very biased reward pool.
There is probably a ton of stuff out there that I also like and would zap but I just haven't had the time to look at it. Or I saw it too late and I was already short on sats.
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Haha yes but in the end, I think I win more because the content that I want to see gets continuously rewarded.
you would love to read my new article, there are many hidden value besides the most obvious one sats.
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328 sats \ 1 reply \ @fm 8 Jan
up to 1k sats to the person who can explain who or what Swim is or means in this context.
Is this the non-stoner version of wake and bake?
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Good direction but not exactly (or even close, lol)
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Do you sometimes wake up and think: "I really want to drink some Coca-Cola."? That's how sugar addiction must feel like.
no, I don't crave for sugar ( I prefer honey ) and drinking Coca-Cola feels like committing suicide 😂
woohoo, thanks for the fwd:)! and why?