I feel like a true wild west renegade. Vigilante mode: enabled
Downzapping FTW!
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I so rarely downzap, but I think it's very important.
Maybe I should think through what my downzapping standards should be.
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23 sats \ 7 replies \ @ch0k1 19 Mar
What's downzap?
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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.
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23 sats \ 3 replies \ @ch0k1 19 Mar
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?
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I think it's mostly used to combat various types of damaging content, more so than down ranking mediocre content.
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23 sats \ 1 reply \ @ch0k1 19 Mar
So does this mean it has a bigger impact or priority on a post than the zap?
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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.
22 sats \ 1 reply \ @Oialt 19 Mar
Damn I was hoping it would take zaps away and give them to me. Yes, I see no problems with this system.
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Not directly. Downzaps go into the reward pool. so you'll get some of it back.
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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
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Build people up…. Not knock them down…
well said, don't "waste" the sats, even they go to the reward pool.
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Hot take: I think the only way to earn a hat should be through downzapping.
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Maybe down zappers can get a black cowboy hat and up zappers can get a white one
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Or simply changing the hat style, downzapping was the norm and upzapping had a feather 😂
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😂😂😂😂😂 now you understand my daily struggle?
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what if I told you that the hat doesn't matter - the way to win is not to play. 👀
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Has hat, hides hat 👀
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TIL about downzapping
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downzapped 🤣
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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.
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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
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Interesting
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I don't even know down zappz existed before this post. Interesting. 🤔
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Thank you for your service
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What is downzapping?