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Worth noting that while they do end up in the rewards pool, you don’t get more rewards for downzapping.
Yeah, there’s no econ incentive for doing downzap! And I think that’s a good thing, plus I’ve even suggested a reward poll just for downzappers in the past! ~lol
I think there’s a decent argument for treating downzaps the same as upzaps for rewards
How are you gonna reward downzappers with sats? Right now, rewards go to the upzappers of the top posts/comments. How are you gonna define a top down post/comment? Only if the downzaps are higher than the upzaps?
Top posts are the top third of posts, so bad posts would just be the bottom third.
With the current number of stackers, and even fewer downzapping, that would be easy to manipulate. You could just go to posts/comments with few or no upzaps and downzap those. With just a few sats, you'd be the top downzapper real quick!
Yes, but you’re ranked against all other zappers, not just downzappers. The expected value of a downzap would still be negative.
Right, but this way you can rack up more 'top zapper' points (total of up/down zaps) and get more daily rewards. Or maybe I’m not getting your algorithm!
I completely agree with my friend; we cannot reward those who behave negatively in the same way as those who behave positively.
That doesn't make sense. Would you mind explaining your point of view in more detail so I can try to understand?
In short, downzapping isn't "behaving negatively". It is an important feature that allows stackers to curate the site organically.
I wrote a couple of longer pieces about this:
If there are no reward incentives for those who engage in downzapping, what motivates them to spend those SATS? It’s a very intriguing situation. 🤔
They’re either Good Samaritans or bad actors
I understand that to earn SATS from that reward pool, you have to make zaps as well; it’s good to know that if you make Downzaps, that action doesn’t count towards earning rewards.
👉 https://stacker.news/rewards