79 sats \ 5 replies \ @cryotosensei 22 May \ on: Gaming Stacker News is Self-Defeating in the Long-Run meta
I think your appeal only works when people are personally invested in SN n genuinely/somewhat care about its development. Unfortunately, some people will see SN just as a place to earn n stack sats - nothing more nothing less. It’s illustrated in the way how some users seldom zap any other Stacker. I wish you had chosen Do you zap people who don’t zap back? instead. I actually don’t mind if people work the time zone in their favour n earn an optimal amount of rewards. But if they don’t spread a portion of their gains around, it just doesn’t sit well with me.
Sorry about the omission. I grabbed the relevant posts from your list of top posts and I missed it.
I don’t think people need to feel invested for my argument to land. The assumption I need is that Stackers will eventually leave if there’s no longer any content that interests them.
The takeaway I’m hoping people get is that honest zapping creates a feedback cycle: people like you get more voting power, which leads to your content creators getting more rewards, which attracts more users like you, which increases your voting power…
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No lar, no apologies needed. After all, I write dozens of articles on SN haha.
The point about voting power is thought-provoking, and I think it would fly by many Stackers, me included. Reason being voting power isn’t as visible as sats haha. N erm, since it’s kinda clouded in mystique, it’s an abstract entity. It’s nearly impossible to track the ups n downs of my voting power, I reckon. N what doesn’t get tracked doesn’t get managed.
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I don’t really expect this message to land, but it popped into my head last night, so I made a post about it this morning.
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Well done, you. You should post your original content more often
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I like being able to give a lot of attention to the comments on my posts and it starts feeling hectic when I have more than one discussion going on at a time.
We've been talking basketball quite a bit lately, so that's where most of my original content has been going.
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