42 sats \ 37 replies \ @Natalia 23 Mar freebie \ parent \ on: Stacker Saloon
No.
No, you might even get to earn some trust if other stackers zap that too.
"Does SN want to incentivize those behaviors?" 👀 cc @sn
Why doesn't it hurt our trust scores?
These would not generally be categorized as "good" posts. My understanding is that "trust" is a measure of our likelihood to zap "good" content.
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from what I've learned, you can only earn trust, not hurting it at the moment. 👀
My understanding is that "trust" is a measure of our likelihood to zap "good" content.
the trust is more like you are ahead of others zapping the good stuff, which implying others trust your taste.
zap trust currently, which does not factor in stackers zapping you. It factors in stackers zapping things you've already zapped.
from @k00b
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From the faq
and lose trust by zapping bad content.
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but then zapping bad ones is not equal to no one zapping your comments? I think bad content is like the ones got outlawed?
Many of us zap almost every reply we get, varying the amount to reflect quality. Oftentimes, these are comments that no one else zaps. Does that hurt our trust scores?
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Roughly: Person A trusts person B according the binomial proportion of their zapping. That is, roughly,
# A agreed with B / (# B zapped - # B agreed with A). (We construct a confidence interval so we can predict with smaller samples what this proportion is likely to be.)So if B is zapping a lot of stuff that A never zaps, A begins to trust B less. But, importantly, we normalize A's trust among everyone they trust, so if A isn't zapping at all for a period of time, and person B continues to zap as does everyone else, A will continue to roughly trust B the same.
When A downzaps things B has zapped,
# A agreed with B roughly becomes # A agreed with B - (10 * # A disagreed with B).Note: this is only a single link in the trust graph. A can never agree with B directly, but still end up trusting B, if A trusts C and D, and C and D trust B.
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I think I understand the trust graph concept. How is that converted into our effect on zaprank, though? It seems like we must also have something like a global trust score.
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I figured it was something like that.
This will tie into something darth brought up, is the algorithm non-linear in such a way as to discourage trying to game it by splitting your activity across multiple accounts?
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how high trusted they are
That's the crux of my question. How trusted they are by who?
One more hack for you, if you want to guess how other stackers' trust or yours, go to the comment session to see how the comment ranked when it's only zapped by you.
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That's sort of what inspired these questions. @grayruby was making fun of me because my zap of his fun fact had basically no effect on it's ranking.
I wasn't thinking about outlawed (or just net downzapped) content. That would make sense.
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