43 sats \ 11 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 20 Mar \ parent \ on: Million Sat Madness is a Keynesian Beauty Contest meta
I'd love for someone to unearth a simple mechanism for eliciting honest zaps. Fingers crossed.
All we need is an implanted brain chip that can detect the dopamine increase as well as track the post we were reading, then automatically zap based on how much we got out of it. Seems pretty simple, and no way it could go wrong.
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there could be a timer implemented into a window? when you hit reply, it starts counting up in sats on the zap (which would be auto since you're replying) and the longer you take to respond (the assumption is you're engaging more than one word answers there). the more you auto zap the parent comment. when writing your own comment in response to a post, same thing applies, only its the main post that gets the zaps.
but i have zero coding knowledge of how to implement that. i don't even know if you could automatically bill someone via zaps, i'm unsure its possible as that transaction needs to be signed effectively? thats all way above my head. but i'm interested to hear how @kr and the team of devs would do something like that if they chose to do so.
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That's a very fun experiment proposal. All the miserly hodling cheapskates would flip out.
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i can see them now, losing their minds as they furiously type at super speed to keep the post long but the costs low 🤣 just better hope they don't accidently leave a reply window open whilst browsing something else. that could be a big bill to come back to.
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timing things is like tests at school, very stressful. I would definitely leave the site if that happened LOL
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Although meant quite tongue in cheek, it does highlight some obstacles. I wouldn't be too pleased to find a huge bill. And I don't know if I like enforcing zaps if you are engaging. Zaps are a choice... But I do wish more users would choose to zap.
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As someone who has on occasion tabbed away and found an open comment window hours later, I think I'd be broke in a heartbeat.
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You and me both. My comment was meant very tongue in cheek, but it does highlight an obstacle to overcome. Needs to have built in redundancy should you tab away for example.
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Anyone have Elon's number? I'm sure he's looking for human volunteers.
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I'd love for someone to unearth a simple mechanism for eliciting honest zaps
that's exactly what needs to happen. Surely it can't be rocket science!
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Rocket science has been solved. There are hundreds of brilliant minds still working on designing incentive compatible mechanisms. It's much harder than rocket science.
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