Im pretty sure all of us have tried one time or another.
I did for a while, it only lasted a week though.
Because most of us make it on the board, it isnt so suspect when we move up a few ranks.
But we all try to optimize our posting, right?
Can't be. I know who he is. Just my spy eyes have found him though I'm still trying to connect some broken pieces together. Will reveal once I have some strong evidence.
I have learned stacker news pretty well, but again, not trying to game the system. “Gaming the system” was a bit of an accident, followed by a trolling of the system, and finally, realizing some folks were offended, hosting this AMA to determine if I want to continue zapping or just be a reader/poster.
Its very interesting.
Today, all the things you zapped were things I didnt.
But to tell you the truth, I rarely zap stuff that is more technical, especially posts about the lightning network.
Today you have zapped 2222.
Can you go through where you zapped it?
I am just curious.
I thought I was careful to zap early, and comment early.
Yet you zoomed above me.
There are a number of comment zaps too and some posts that aren’t on the leaderboard! You may just not be zapping enough PER zap. My base zap is 100 and my upgraded can be as much as 2000. If you zap someone 21 sats for an article that took an hour to write, that’s…well that’s just not enough. Also, if you zap someone 21 sats for drivel, that’s too much. Just don’t zap 21 sats.
Also, if you only do 1 zap a day, you get a cowboy hat. If you make those one or two or four zaps early, good ones, you get the kickback. The kickback really I only found out by accident and have only perused to troll people (although, don’t get me wrong, I need sats just as much as the proverbial next guy). I thought it was all in good fun, but it seems that the weasel may be popping for some folks.
Most prominent stackers are aware of this but don't interact this way. One person's zapping drivel is another person's acknowledgement that someone took the time and effort to post or reply to them. The punishment for zapping a lot content and non high value stackers has always been a bone of contention of mine but I understand why it exists as the need to root out spam is a weighty problem.
I think folks are confused. Maybe I wasn’t clear enough. When I say upgraded, I mean if it’s good content, I zap it more than 100. I don’t ever do the thing where you zap the same thing twice and the second zap is bigger or whatever.
Interesting.
I hadnt thought of that.
@koob, if my base zap is 10, but I push it 10 times, does that mean only the first zap of 10 is counted, and the other 90 dont have as much as a kickback?
You might need to spend some more time climbing the leaderboards, so it's easier to find your ranks in the different categories.
However, in all likelihood you're in Yellow Squad like most of us. That means you rank higher in stacking than spending and higher in comments than posts.
Thank you for forwarding zaps 🤠 In fact, I have nothing to ask as it is already clear to me how you are accomplishing this and it is quite difficult. Primarily because I cannot stay away from zapping for very long and secondly, I lack the precision to hit the exact target.
In my opinion, it's not your intention to earn sats with this magic, because otherwise you wouldn't do it so openly. I think you just want to show the 'fragility' of the algorithm. I'm sure you have other account(s) and I already have 3 suspects 🤠
@Undisciplined - seem to have a friendly rivalry
@Satosora - seem to have a friendly rivalry
@0xbitcoiner - seem to have a friendly rivalry
@TheMorningStar - seems legitimately offended, I don’t feel comfortable not addressing this
@grayruby - seems legitimately offended and is actually my favorite stacker in all the land, if I can’t address his concerns, I will certainly stop the trolling and maybe stop zapping altogether
@coinsreporter would have been included if I could have forwarded zaps to more than five people.
In terms of your activity, I am more annoyed than offended. I was mildly offended in my debate with @k00b at the implication (which I don't think was his intent but was how it came across) your behavior holds more value than that of a lot of great stackers that put a lot of time and effort into the SN community.
Whatever your motives and whether you deem it as such or not, I perceived and still do, your activity in your Wizard form as net negative to the community and morale of stackers. Maybe I am not as open minded as other stackers.
OK, well this gets to the heart of why I wanna talk. Does it come across as creepy, because it’s definitely supposed to come across as fun? Even the idea of an AMA from a villain that’s not a big name in bitcoin is supposed to be a little fun while we’re hashing this out. But if it comes across as mean spirited, I certainly don’t mean that. I thought the fiction of it was over-the-top enough to be enjoyed as coffee break tomfoolery. Or is it just too much of a distraction from the serious content on the site?
If you give me that I’m not trying to game the system (the intentions of which are impossible to prove), what’s the primary net negative? Too creepy? Too much of a distraction? Or is it still something that’s going over my head?
No, I think many understand it fairly well, they just choose not to exploit it because the main goal is not to extract as many sats as possible out of SN.
TBH, I'm yet to believe that early zapping can rank someone so highly. I'm like 12+ hours on SN these days. But the leaderboard rank I'm getting these days hasn't come because of early zapping at all.
Someway, that's why I muted so many territories, and keep clean and reduced my SN feed. Otherwise I would be always in top 5 leaderboard if I would comment in all territories.
I think I know how he played the algo, some time ago I saw it playing with nemo some stupid games zapping each others. It's involved an anon zapping a lot beside that SN account.
You guys are not playing enough attention to what is going on in SN.
This AMA is a joke.
I've also muted so many srackers who keep posting just links only in attempt to find one or two links that somehow become success here. Is that a right practice to just post a link, in your opinion?
It's bullshit. This account wants to get acceptance among stackers, nothing else. He certainly has got another account.
I dare say koob and any other stacker can find this entertaining when without any comment or post a person can slip away with big rewards, I can never accept it.
I think I am more amazed he can actually pick the correct posts to zap.
The touch of midas.
But it did bother me for a while that he didnt post anything, all he did was zap.
No, I don’t think it’s fair to judge someone’s intentions just because they won’t give you something. When I learned to solder, a friend gave me a soldering gun because he didn’t need it anymore. I never asked him for it. I’m not going to tell you if I still have that either, and I’m certainly not giving it to you if I do. I know a ton of other folks that would like it as well.
I think you’ve contributed good things to the ecosystem and I’ve zapped those posts and shared them with others (who have zapped them as well), but while I sympathize with gray ruby and the morning star’s concerns, this one is meritless. No one owes you personal property just because they weren’t seeking it out. I’ve never said I don’t need sats, but even if I didn’t, that doesn’t mean you’d be the default person for them to go to.
That would be an interesting twist but I don't think so. I do think it is another stacker who has created this account out of experiment or to amuse themselves.
He is using us to make this post rank amongst the top and he zapped it 1k sats from his wizard account. But at least I appreciate the novelty of this attack.
I don't think it is but if it's @ek he cost himself 10k sats because he didn't get a pick in last week while he was too busy larping as a wizard. Haha.
What is @DarthCoin? Is that a some sort of meme coin? I’m a toxic maxi and probably wouldn’t get along with this @DarthCoin character. Alt coins are for dweebs.
You just showed a screen shot to @Satosora showing you zapped Darth's post today.
Have fun with your game. I hope zapping this 1k from your wizard account moves you up the ranks. As silly as this is, at least you are actually trying to interact with the community today.
🙏I'm learning a lot from all of you. As I said above, it may be SN loves my ignorance. You may see me keep asking more and more. And if anything, I know 😄 I always try to mix India in everything. I would again say that if I'm ever a mighty I'd still be under the mighty nights of @siggy47, @Undisciplined@DarthCoin@k00b@grayruby and so many other exceptional Stackers here.
I do appreciate they did this AMA. Noticed they zapped it 1k sats in the screenshot they sent you. If it becomes the top post of the day could be lucrative.
I dont know if it is enough to reach the top post.
Maybe with enough high ranking stackers posting, it might?
Not that I am a high ranking stacker or anything.
DARE YOU STIR THE IRE OF A MIGHTY WIZARD!?!?
witchtrial before the execution though?AND NOW YOU ACCUSE ME OF COWARDICE!? TASTE THE WRATH OF MY MIGHTY ZAPS!