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35 sats \ 5 replies \ @justanumber 28 Mar \ parent \ on: What will you do with your MSM winnings? meta
I don't wish it to go back how it was. Being rewarded for zapping top posts and top comments "early" caused people to try and predict what would be "top", leaving good content and worthy comments languishing. I could see people zapping any old crap and/or people posting any old crap to farm zaps from those gaming the system. Or just commenting low quality nonsense to be the first to comment to collect the early zaps. Also strongly suspected bot activity. Also heavy zapping of certain popular contributors to try and ensure an early top comment zap, leaving less known, newer contributors or just contributors who come in later sometimes thinking what's the point. People in different time zones can be disadvantaged.
Something more equitable needs to be implemented that rewards decent contribution. But after the MSM comp I fear what any alternative might end up being implemented. Perhaps if we end up with an new MSM (Mainstream Madness) style replacement or worse then the old rewards system would be better the devil we know. Anyhow, whatever happens, it doesn't matter to me. If it doesn't suit I will just leave or spend way less time here, but it would be shame if a better model with integrity couldn't be found.
What MSM has done though is show me which people are the try hards who have fallen for the school/fiat work style competition behavioural manipulation bollox and which people have the intelligence to recognise it for what it is and the integrity to speak out (clue the latter are in the very few!). So that's been interesting to watch. I don't expect to be popular for saying all these things.
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I have spoken before about MSM. Totally unfair making everyone work their socks off to try and be "in the running" but only a few will benefit from everyone's hard work. But they will convince themselves they have worked for it and deserve it - and they will do to an extent but there have to be losers for there to be winners - a bit like a shitcoin. Damn, did I just say MSM is a shitcoin? 😬 There just too much to go into to explain what and why I don't like it. That's why I said right from the beginning I would not be "doing it". Lottery style gradient with top winner(s) and the rapidly decreasing pool. Also look at the leaderboard. Look at the figures closely (the ones you can see) some of them don't make sense, something very wrong there. I spoken so much about it the past few weeks but don't have the time any more. I think I've said enough. It's not for me to try to help structure someone else's business for them. It's VC backed and they usually want ROI, so I guess that why it's set up in this fiat style way.
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