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193 sats \ 6 replies \ @siggy47 24 Mar \ parent \ on: Million Sat Madness Leaderboard — #836133 oracle

You raise all good points, starting with the fact that it should have been an opt in, although it wouldn't have been a real choice if rewards only went to participants. Short of that, there could have been some heads up about this plan. I already bored everyone with my feelings when this thing was announced, but now the peer pressure to sacrifice your privacy is difficult to take.

156 sats \ 5 replies \ @Scoresby 24 Mar

Stay strong! Don't sacrifice it.

I'm curious how you would feel about it if numbers (total stacked, estimated reward) were hidden but names were not.

240 sats \ 4 replies \ @siggy47 24 Mar freebie

I feel like it's the principle of the matter. I wouldn't like names exposed. As it is, the heuristics here expose privacy anyway. More accurately than chainalysis. I don't want to get all self righteous, but I played fiat games, score keeping and keeping up with the Joneses my whole life. I'm pretty old, and I'm sick of it. I will agree with you that content here has certainly improved, and that's a plus.

203 sats \ 3 replies \ @Scoresby 24 Mar

It's really tricky: some of what SN is doing (at least as far as I get it) is using money to moderate a public forum.

This should be awesome. Skin in the game, less spam, value for value, markets...it all works together to incentive interesting interactions and content.

But in order to do that, some of the information has to be visible so we can all make choices about what to read.

This inevitably creates privacy issues and keeping up with the Joneses effects.

March has put a fine point on it with MSM. It was easier to ignore under normal SN rules. But also has incentivized some interesting content and interactions.

73 sats \ 2 replies \ @siggy47 24 Mar freebie

All true. IMO, the tradeoffs have always been worth it, except for MSM. A line was crossed.

109 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 24 Mar

Yeah, I prefer the old SN.

17 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 24 Mar

I feel like making it explicit that I fully endorse people staying hidden, if that's what they want to do. Anything I say that seems to the contrary is just trash talk in the spirit of competition.

I agree that it kind of sucks that we can pretty accurately deduce how much people are making in rewards, when those people have expressed a desire to protect their privacy.

Maybe there could be a lower stakes contest with a leader board that is opt in and only a fraction of the rewards pool goes towards it.