79 sats \ 10 replies \ @Undisciplined 28 Jul \ on: Nudges for SN meta
One of the recent Econ Nobel laureates was given for work on behavioral nudging.
This is a high potential avenue to go down. My recent posts about downzapping concluded that the best solution was probably just a nudge that encourages randomly selected people to downzap bad content today.
I don't remember who was suggesting this, so apologies for not giving credit, but there was an idea to send inactive stackers messages off-platform to entice them back. I'm thinking that could be sending them whatever post is on top of their hot list, either through e-mail or nostr message. It could also be a notification that they've stacked some quantity of sats since being away.
As silly as it sounds, just having "Zap Big. Zap Often." visible on the page somewhere might have a noticeable impact.
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The thing is that suggestive manipulation is unavoidable. The state takes it's slice, but the most people can do is to chose what to get manipulated by. The solution to state nudging can't be no nudging, for it's a physical impossibility, but a "better" nudging, at the choice of each individual. Holding a "life philosophy", to know the own nudging, and understanding manipulation mechanisms, to detect the outer nudging, is the way.
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I agree that when we have a firm grasp of our values, we won’t be likely to be susceptible to external influences. It’s like focus on the signal, ignore the noise like all Bitcoiners do xP
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Exactly Sr. HODL
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That's very much correct. Most behavioral economists are enormous statists, in my experience. That doesn't mean they aren't discovering useful tools, though.
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It would be interesting to run an experiment. Inactive Stackers in Group A to receive a notification wrt their sats. Compared to inactive Stackers in Group B to receive a short message about how they have been missed or general updates of SN. We can see which nudge works better.
I actually think the Zap Big. Zap Often banner is a brilliant idea. But I fear Stackers might be desensitised to it in the long run. It’s like how smokers don’t break a sweat when they see gross adverts depicting the harmful effects of smoking on the cigarette boxes
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The thing with anti-smoking campaigns is that it actually worked in America. It's become pretty uncommon for people to smoke here. Maybe it should just say "Zap Well" or "Happy Zapping!", which would come off more affirmatively.
I like the experiment idea. Don't forget control group C, though.
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Given how rampant the vaping culture is in Singapore, even among elementary school students, I find America’s relative absence of smoking culture amazing!
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It is strange. I can't think of anything else like it. We don't exercise, eat healthy, or abstain from other drugs, despite massive campaigns, but smoking is largely gone.
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