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I am curious if this is accurate… when I joined SN, my motivation was in search a new venue for good content. I knew that one is incentivized to post high quality by earning sats, but wasn’t even aware of the leaderboard. I suppose I just don’t understand the motivation behind the leaderboard- accountability? Bragging rights? If someone is discerning enough to earn more rewards by targeting the highest quality content and zapping it, aren’t the sats enough reward without posting a ranking?