pull down to refresh

I feel like a true wild west renegade. Vigilante mode: enabled

Downzapping FTW!

reply

I so rarely downzap, but I think it's very important.

Maybe I should think through what my downzapping standards should be.

reply

What's downzap?

reply

It's an option in the little dots there by the cowboy hats and time since posting.

What it does is decrease the rank of a post. You can spend sats to signal that you think a post is very low value and should have less visibility.

reply

Yeah, I've seen it in the menu but never used it . Do you think the negative vote can be more effective in determining and differentiating the quality content from the mediocre one?

reply

I think it's mostly used to combat various types of damaging content, more so than down ranking mediocre content.

reply

So does this mean it has a bigger impact or priority on a post than the zap?

reply

For relatively small downzaps it might be an equivalent effect.

The big difference is that enough downzaps cause a post to be "outlawed". Only stackers who enable "wild west" mode can see outlawed posts.

Damn I was hoping it would take zaps away and give them to me. Yes, I see no problems with this system.

reply

Not directly. Downzaps go into the reward pool. so you'll get some of it back.

reply

Build people up…. Not knock them down…

Except 5hitcoiners, and AI, and bots, and schills, and influencers, and nym-itators…. In fact ‘kill ‘em all! Lol

reply
Build people up…. Not knock them down…

well said, don't "waste" the sats, even they go to the reward pool.

reply

Hot take: I think the only way to earn a hat should be through downzapping.

reply

Maybe down zappers can get a black cowboy hat and up zappers can get a white one

reply

Or simply changing the hat style, downzapping was the norm and upzapping had a feather 😂

reply

😂😂😂😂😂
now you understand my daily struggle?

reply

deleted by author

What exactly happens when something is down zapped? Do those funds go to the rewards pool? Does a poster know they have been down zapped? Just curious. I have earned a cowboy hat by down zapping before haha but never wonder it's impact other than ranking prioritization.

reply

Yup. From the "what is a Downzap" faq that's available when you downzap someone:

  • downzaps are just like zaps but cause items to lose ranking position
  • downzaps also reduce trust between you and whoever zaps it so you'll see less of what they zap in the future
  • all sats from downzaps go to rewards
reply

what if I told you that the hat doesn't matter - the way to win is not to play. 👀

reply

Has hat, hides hat 👀

reply

TIL about downzapping

reply

downzapped 🤣

reply

Interesting

reply

I don't even know down zappz existed before this post. Interesting. 🤔

reply

Thank you for your service

reply

What is downzapping?