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23 sats \ 7 replies \ @ch0k1 19 Mar \ parent \ on: TIL: You can get a cowboy hat by downzapping meta

What's downzap?

31 sats \ 6 replies \ @Undisciplined 19 Mar

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.

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?

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 19 Mar

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

23 sats \ 1 reply \ @ch0k1 19 Mar

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

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 19 Mar

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 \ @Jimmyhoneyalchemist 19 Mar

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

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 19 Mar

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