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CAREFUL! Don't be tempted by the dark darth side!
already is a strong incentive to make good posts (maybe authors of good posts want to post because it feels good or because they want readers or because they just can't help themselves).
Introspectively, I gotta say it's a little bit of all three
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Too much supply of good posts is an interesting framing.
It implies to me that perhaps I am thinking about it backwards. If there are more good posts than stackers can zap...or even than they can ready, perhaps there already is a strong incentive to make good posts (maybe authors of good posts want to post because it feels good or because they want readers or because they just can't help themselves).
I don't quite believe this (why should posters be exempt from the capitalist motivations we hold the rest of the world to?) but it may be pointing at something interesting: that stackers aren't posting solely for the sats.
This aligns with the idea that the important function of zaps on SN is to provide signal, not to reward posters.
oh, god! You're gonna make me agree with Darth! .gif