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102 sats \ 8 replies \ @deSign_r 5h \ parent \ on: POLL: Stacker News Slogan meta
people usually will not come if they know they need to pay to post, because the crowd will compare with what else is available and always pt for the cheaper or more convenient option. Why one shuld pay to post here and reach a niche when can do the same on X or r/ and reach the masses?
I'd probably keep all the payments and rewards working in the background... hide it. Let people post freebies but don't let them know it is as such and has less visibility. They will get it at some stage.
Same for the rewards, give it away to those that deserve it, but don't make it a public thing or a hook for predators to join the competition... it's more about collaboration.
Last, just visualize and present what today is named sats as zaps, karma or points... they are no sats anymore, and people get confused by the sybil fees anyway.
This is what everyone said to ProtonMail when they said 'hey we're going to charge for premium email'...
'ya noone will pay for that it's already free.'
15 years later ProtonMail has 80 million users.
In other words people will pay where they find quality.
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I'm coming around to this view.
I used to be pretty adamant that there should always be free paths and that "pay to post" was not the most attractive aspect of SN, but my experiences on Reddit and X have left me feeling that a sizable group of people may be willing to pay some small amount to escape the constant bot, spam, ai slop fest without aggressive moderation.
The problem with freebie posts that are limited in visibility is that it's a horrible first experience. You sign up, you put some hard work into writing a post and it just dies and feels like nobody cares. Is the number of people who bounce because of that experience greater or less than the number of people who would bounce because they are told they have to pay to post?
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No, I believe that only has to do with the things you post as a user, not the things you see from other users.
From the tooltip:
Some comments can be created without paying. However, those comments have limited visibility.If you disable freebies, you will always pay for your comments and get standard visibility.If you attach a sending wallet, we disable freebies for you unless you have checked/unchecked this value already.