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Yes sometimes. I don't remember but on a post the fees was more than 50 sats. I wanted to post but resisted purely on this "what drama is this about comments fees too high!!"
It's my personal opinion that we should ignore spam, bots or bad actors as we have the ability to mute which works absolutely fine. But Alas! Here on SN, humans muting humans absolutely on grounds of nothing and sometimes Slop has been promoted (though could be by mistake).
sats aren't doing the work we want them to do.
Absolutely, and they won't because you can't make it too costly for humans in order to remove the bots/spam.
(and who knows if the bots are richer than us poor humans!)
because you can't make it too costly for humans in order to remove the bots/spam.
What then is the purpose of charging to post/comment at all?
You think this is the only purpose to charge for post and comments.
No it's not.
SN is a BCE and all the use cases it has we have them too, the sats are rotating and we are doing absolutely fine.
In addition to that I'm not sure why we should cry aloud about bots/spam. I absolutely don't see them flourishing here. They come here, stay for sometime, then go away.
Ah! We are a circular economy here. That is a very good point.
I make a habit if subscribing to everyone I think is a bot (in order to see how awful it is), so this may be coloring my view.
I'm glad to hear that you do not see bits flourishing here.
They won't flourish because mute + downzap work better demoralising them than raising the fees and inadvertently demoralising real stackers (and newbies are a bigger concern).
Does this stop you from posting?
I agree that we don't want to stifle discussion, but the high frequency of bot posting is making me think that the sats aren't doing the work we want them to do.