Longer short answer: The competition is over any scarce thing that can be attained through Stacker News. That might be the time and attention of stackers who you want feedback from, it could be their sats, positioning on the front page (which both readers and writers are interested in), or it could be the rewards pool.
There’s no advantage to any particular stacker in some of those things, while others clearly have some degree of reputation factoring in. Reputation seems like a useful thing, though, so now we have to ask if building a reputation is broadly attainable. I think it is, but I haven’t given much thought to what frictions exist there.
Great topic!
Short answer: it’s complicated.
Longer short answer: The competition is over any scarce thing that can be attained through Stacker News. That might be the time and attention of stackers who you want feedback from, it could be their sats, positioning on the front page (which both readers and writers are interested in), or it could be the rewards pool.
There’s no advantage to any particular stacker in some of those things, while others clearly have some degree of reputation factoring in. Reputation seems like a useful thing, though, so now we have to ask if building a reputation is broadly attainable. I think it is, but I haven’t given much thought to what frictions exist there.