72 sats \ 23 replies \ @Undisciplined 12 Sep \ parent \ on: Stacker Saloon
We need to be quicker on the draw.
What's the draw? I'm getting anxious now?
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That's old west slang. We need to zap new posts more quickly, if we want to take this guy down.
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So, can zapping a post earlier may lead to top 5 on the leaderboard! That's weird!
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You get more rewards for zapping early. From an incentive standpoint, you need that to keep people from just waiting to see which posts are top posts before zapping them.
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Okay.
But this stacker seem to have got it very early with perfection. He's regularly trending.
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Every so often, we see someone really gaming the rewards algorithm masterfully.
It's self correcting.
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So, you're saying that rewards algorithm can be gamed?
Is the reward algorithm also visible to everyone?
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Stacker News is open source. The whole thing is visible to everyone. The rewards logic is also described in the FAQ.
If the sorcery continues we can all just downzap the so called wizard. Once his spent to stacked ratio goes negative he will likely move on. a few k sats in downzaps from some valued stackers should do the trick to knock him down a few pegs. He made an error not cloaking himself while conducting magic.
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If he stops posting, being downzapped won't matter, will it? Even outlaws earn zapping rewards.