Zaps are amazing for easily transferring value, but I'm not sure what they are a good signal for.
People looking to achieve high follower counts with little effort can do zap4follow scams, basically buying followers, and giving them a large amount zapped. Anyone can make multiple npubs and round robin zaps to up their numbers. It's easy to game the system.
What could one learn from this information? How could this stat be used to indicate community involvement?
I mean one could argue that zaps are the entirety of the community involvement, I don't like to argue though. I guess just thought it would be cool! What's the point fo follows, replies, and everything else that makes this a social platform(protocol) it's all borrowed and inspired from something. Maybe Node runners could get special banners to show their dedication to the community 😎
I didn't want to argue either, just wondering your viewpoint about how amount of zaps could inspire community involvement, how they could be a new signal for that. My inspiration for this note is to gamify people finding into finding & building community & connections, rather than building a big follower count 👍
I think it is already well used, with bots dedicated to showing big zaps, sites that show zap totals & amounts like nostr.build & zaplife.lol and zaps being shown on notes and comments. If you have new ideas it would be great to share them though!
