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0 sats \ 16 replies \ @JustDavids 15 May 2022 \ parent \ on: Ask SN: what's your best 30 minute orange pilling video? bitcoin
Giving a tip for any answer is completely different than having a bounty set for “the right answer” or any answer.
Those are two different games.
tipping is a free expression while setting a bounty with no guidelines being judged by a group is well centralized.
tips and bounties each solve a specific problem, and are not mutually exclusive. we can have both.
again, my suggestion is that by enabling bounties (on top of the existing tipping system), posters can incentivize great answers.
as an example, look at the top earning user of all time on stacker news.
they gave an incredibly valuable answer to someone’s question (who advertised a 1 million sat bounty).
would they have put the same level of thought and detail into their answer without the bounty? i’d say no.
would the rest of the community have collectively tipped 1 million sats for the answer? no, that didn’t happen.
the poster got an excellent answer to their question, and in return, the commenter got 10,000x more sats than they would have received without the bounty.
win-win.
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I’ll say it again, tipping is a free expression while setting a bounty being judged by a group is well centralized.
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first, we know tipping is a free expression. bounties are free expressions too.
the original poster is entirely free to choose whether or not to offer users a bounty. the original poster is also entirely free to pick their favorite comment, and reward it with half of their bounty.
the community members are also entirely free to pick their favorite comment, and can collectively reward one comment with half of the bounty.
in my posts above, i shared an example and a framework for how the two systems can co-exist, and dramatically increase the quality of content on SN, and the earning amounts for valued contributors.
you haven’t made any arguments for why adding a bounty system on top of the existing tipping system is a bad idea.
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“ first, we know tipping is a free expression. bounties are free expressions too.” not the way you explained it earlier.
The bounty system you spoke of is the complete opposite of what Bitcoin stands for. Plain and simple.
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my suggestion has not changed at all. my original comment was about enabling bounties on stacker news.
what makes this bounty system “the complete opposite” of what bitcoin stands for?
do you also disapprove of the many bounties that exist in the bitcoin ecosystem today?
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You can easily go back and see my rebuttals.
And yes, I have something against the method you explained. It’s no different than pleasing a government or leader in order to get currency biased on their liking to you. That’s is how you explained your bounty system.