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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!
Recall that earliness matters. Waiting to see which posts don’t do well is just as poor a strategy as waiting to see which catch on.
I suspect you’re right that it would be more effective, but probably still not very lucrative.
The strategy that would work better would be for someone who generally earns a lot of rewards to make posts under a different nym that will attract downzaps.
Top posts are the top third of posts, so bad posts would just be the bottom third.