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Zaps v Votes

Zaps necessary. It's the whole point. A person must put money where mouth is. Without some cost, spammers win.

Weighting

Arbitrary. Must come up with the 'perfect formula.' Only certain personality types think they have the 'perfect formula' for everyone, and we don't want them to lead us.

Capping

Arbitrary, Must come up with the perfect maximum cap.

As with everything, the choice is best placed in the hands of the individual. The platform should not decide, it should give options. i.e. I want to see what has been zapped at least 1 penny, with no weighting. Or I want to see everything zapped in order of how much it has been zapped. Or I want to see everything liked in order of how many likes, or everything liked at least once, or everything that AI determines is written with correct syntax and has a 10th grade level vocabulary or higher but has not been zapped or liked... etc

Derek Ross 2y ago

Since these are moderated communities, spammers can't win because mods control the content that gets put into the community. They curate it for the community to prevent spam. Does that change your response?

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Discussion

rugged.rug 2y ago

Thanks for clarification, I didn't consider that. The way spammers would win in that scenario is still through volume I would think, where curating takes time repeatedly, and spamming algorithmically takes time once. If the controls are on the user side or the user has options (using nostr.band statistics to show 'probable spammer' overlay, filtering by zap amount) each can have his own. It should be up to the community and not baked in - and perhaps there would be a reasonably workable model for capping or weighting that some would choose.