No highly active user of the site cares about getting CCs. You just spend them onsite and they become sats in the rewards pool mixer. Only people who are here trying to farm sats care.

My mental accounting is that they're 0.7-ish of a sat:
- strictly worse than a sat bc it's trapped here and can only be spent here. 
- not worthless, since it pays for posts and the "zapping" gets you a slice of the (ever-shrinking) rewards pool — which _does_ pay out in real sats

yes, freebie posts need to go. but CCs need to go as well.

otherwise you just shift the problem elsewhere. if you have CCs, you need to decide how CCs value with regard to sats.

i can pay with sats for my first non-freebie post, but then if i get CCs allocated somehow, i can abuse the system again, back to square 1. CCs are essentially fiat.

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You can easily create new accounts, rack some CCs from a freebie comment, and use that to post content that doesn't benefit the website.

If the comment earns CCs, doesn't that prove it's a valuable comment that benefits the website? Or is there some sort of exploit/bug?

The problem you are describing has nothing to do with CCs vs sats. Eliminating freebie posts is what you actually want.

CCs need to be removed from the site

> You can easily create new accounts, rack some CCs from a freebie comment, and use that to post content that doesn't benefit the website.

If the comment earns CCs, doesn't that prove it's a valuable comment that benefits the website? Or is there some sort of exploit/bug?

The problem you are describing has nothing to do with CCs vs sats. Eliminating freebie posts is what you actually want.