trying to game the algorithm (refreshing the recent tab to catch valuable content first, etc)
First of all, I don't believe this is gaming the algo. It's there for everyone as it's not hidden.
Secondly, 10k sats a day? It's certainly not the amount you get when you're on rank 1. It's also nowhere close to salaries for in India.
Now, I didn't say that I spend half of day's time refreshing for valuable content. I said reading valuable content. Sometimes, I even read very old posts. I'm generally more on top than recent. Yes, I've subscribed to my favourite territories and stackers and when I see a notification, I zap them. Sometimes, I'm lucky to zap then early.
I certainly don't forget to zap all the top 20 to 30 posts daily.
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Gaming is maybe not the right word. Was mostly trying to give you some triggers for possible introspection from your side so that you can figure out if you want to take a break or not.
I'd be happy to see you take that bike trip by the way... would be something amazing to report on, and you might be able to use it as a ways to spread Satoshi's word ;)
when I see a notification, I zap them
For me, the temptation to zap them before I actually figured out what they wrote is worth is sometimes quite big... I try not to (but often fail), because otherwise, it'll just make the same people end up on the front page... but that's not necessarily what the algorithm rewards.
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recenttab to catch valuable content first, etc) to end up at the top of the leaderboard. Half a day of time doesn't justify the 10k (?) sats you can hoard that way, unless 300k sats matches a half or full-time salary in India? You should know best. I usually prefer visiting the page in the morning here, because that's when i have lots of notifications to respond to. Daytime use of SN is much less useful for me.