I don't think that's a bad thing, as long as people are aware of the possibility. It's like advertising - people spend money to get your attention. SN, I believe, gets a percentage of each zap, no? This is a major improvement over traditional social media; at least here you know the algorithm.

Anyway, when I saw 90k sats or whatever that instantly raised a red flag.  

mudbloodvonfrei

Yes there's no helping someone distinguish spending from value creation if they suffer the Keynesian disease of confusing them

If you hover over the sats on any post/comment it will tell you the number of "zappers" but its obviously not very visible.

k00b

@DiracDelta recent hit post on Swan

siggy47

Got you. Thanks. I just had a depressing thought. If SN were around during the Blocksize Wars imagine the gaming that could have gone on? The situation that I guess that can't be defended against is a person who doesn't have much knowledge of an issue being influenced because a particular reply got 5k sats.