Why current polls on #Nostr are just moneygrabs:

Recently, the function of making a poll got added on Nostr.

To vote in a poll one has to #zap sats on a certain option to participate and only those that did that will see the results. The results are that the poll option that received the most sats get to be the highest ranked answer.

If someone desires a certain outcome, the only thing that person has to do is zap a relative high amount of sats to one answer of the poll and there it determines the outcome.

So, the data generated by those polls is spurrious, it says nothing about the public opinion as it is easely manipulated.

That leaves the question of what the goal really is to post such a poll and why they exist in this way in the first place?

The person that posts such a poll will receive all the sats that are zapped within that poll. And there is their incentive to post such a poll, they don't care about the outcome, they just want your #Bitcoin . Or in other words, a moneygrab.

Where is the world do You have a poll where You have to pay to participate? Usually people either participate for free in polls or they even get conpensation for the effort to participate. Would those people that post current polls on Nostr be still posting them if it would cost them sats? Off course not!

You all know who they are;

Save your sats, they're rare and will become more valuable over time! 😉