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93 sats \ 2 replies \ @optimism 4 Sep \ parent \ on: Stacker Saloon

if you filter out boosts, same picture?

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228 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 5 Sep

Yeah because some portion of those boosts would just become economically advantaged Sybil zaps.

Even removing evergreenness doesn’t fix the distribution of shame, shamelessness, and generosity. The problem is at root, as it has been, people counting.

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248 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 5 Sep

I meant this in a way of data metrics tho.

I think you have "something" - but it's barely enough to get a real feel for it - with Item.lastZapAt and maybe .lastCommentAt in the db. Can use this to see for example which items get interaction (but not what it does to ranking, I don't see a way to get that data) after they're older. E.g (pseudo):

FROM "Item" WHERE MAX(lastZapAt, lastCommentAt) - paidAt > ::months(3)

The question I try to pose is: does such list also show evergreenness of mostly ads and ideology? Or does it have a higher amount of guides, news and AskSN/AMAs?

I ask because I think that user behavior ought to be wider than just what zaprank shows/rewards, especially because of this nifty thing, as @SimpleStacker likes to mention: Goodhart's Law. In this case, that concept makes sure that what the zaprank algo rewards with visibility is going to be used for the things people are most invested in to be visible: ads and ideology.

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