Same. That’s where I agree with you 😂 But I think having some basic criteria to filter who gets zapped could make it useful. I try to follow only non-scammy people, so I would generally be ok using that as a starting point. Or maybe a company could keep a list of people/npubs that have ordered from them, or whatever, and then reward those people with interactions/reposts/etc. I think it has a use, but needs to be more targeted.
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Yeah I understand and think that would be cool too, but just don’t see how it could be more efficient considering Nostr’s love of anonymity 🤷♀️
It can work with anonymity, I think. Just need a moderately-useful web of trust to filter out scammers. I think we’ll see it. Some scammy accounts will still slip through, but it can be worth it for businesses/people that need to ensure fast exposure to more people. Up to each person though to decide if it’s worth their reputation to repost something for a few sats. I don’t like to do it most of the time. Usually I ignore those pleas for reposts, but if a company like Blockstream or some artist I like on here was making the offer I’d participate. It would benefit them, and me, and I’m okay reposting that kind of stuff.
If it’s advertising, it should be advertising SOMETHING though right? I feel like just advertising your own account serves no purpose other than attention seeking and reinforcing negative actors with positive rewards 🤷♀️
Say I’m an artist who just joined nostr. I know that posting without an algo, probably everything I post is going to get ignored. I would absolutely see the benefit of offering to zap anyone who reposts it within the next day. Maybe I limit it to zapping anyone with more than 1k followers, or anyone over a certain “trust score” on that thing that’s been going around. That would be super useful as new account trying to get connected.
Advertising your own account is perfectly legitimate if you’re trying to build connections.
I suppose it depends how you define “connections” because most of the people “connecting” with those posts are not actually people.
I like the term connections better than followers, but whatever you wanna call it. You’re missing the web of trust part. Or whatever criteria. You seem convinced it can’t work, or shouldn’t be done, and I think that’s just a shitty attitude to have here.
I haven’t seen the web of trust actually work efficiently yet. I never said it couldn’t. I’m talking about right now. You seem to be talking in hypotheticals. I’m not interested in arguing over differences of opinions. I think two different opinions can coexist. It’s not like my saying something that bothers me is gonna change or affect anything. They’re just words.
And even if there is a functioning web of trust in the future, I will still think it’s cringe to engagement farm.
Advertising is different than engagement farming. Web of trust doesn’t need to be perfect for this kind of use case. Just good enough. I’ve seen nostr:nprofile1qqsppdnxpjc82jlm3yn9gawhv7p4nm69a3f80rg5ycw305xned2s0hcpz3mhxue69uhkzmr8duh82arcduhx7mn99uq3wamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwpexjmtpdshxuet59u4skayr do some advertising this way to push out new products and from the outside looking in it appears to get his posts out pretty quickly. Again, you are taking a hardcore stand here that doesn’t make sense. Advertising is a legit activity, even necessary. What’s up your butt about it?
if i say retarded things will you pay attention to me even if im not a farmer?