I'd say remove the free posts/comments altogether.
You're right. The idea was to provide a gradual ramp to using lightning on the site but maybe it's not necessary.
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I'm actually very curious how this will turn out in terms of shitposts - sick of seeing them on Twitter.
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Same! The goal is a more casual place to have conversations around bitcoin than say the dev mailing list but create a hurdle high enough to filter out low quality input you'd find on either Twitter or Reddit. Those places aren't always bad places for discussion but the mean is pretty bad.
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