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Query for our Devs... How many "freebies" does one SN account get? I was under the impression it was just one 🤔. @k00b @kr @ekzyis I'm fairly certain I'm seeing a repeat account posting with the freebie tag in a lot of different places across multiple posts.

You are. I turned off freebies in my territories. They post, withdraw sats they earn, then get a free post for a zero balance wallet.

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I see. Little loophole there.

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It's a big one. My territories were getting flooded with spammy, useless freebie posts until we got the option to turn them off.

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I don't want to turn it off if I can avoid it as those freebie posts are providing engagement and content for the territory. If I turn off freebie posts... Does that also prevent freebie comments?

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I don't know about freebie comments. I'm really not sure what's best. I guess we have to experiment more.

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I don't remember exactly how long, but it must have been a while since we allowed infinite freebie posts as long as the fee would only be 1 sat. The idea was that they couldn't spam since following posts will cost 10x more for 10 minutes. But there might be a loophole in the fee escalation algorithm since our last update to it -- for example, by just commenting on a different post.

Also, in case someone didn't know: Freebie posts are only visible to stackers who enabled greeter mode. It is off by default.

I was under the impression it was just one

Before our changes to the amount, it was 5 freebie comments and 3 freebie posts (no matter the cost iirc) .

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Cheers ekzyis for clearing that up. Appreciate it 👊

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69 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 15 Jan 2024

What part wasn't clear yet? :)

Just curious, this might tell us where we can improve.

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It was my misconception. I was under the impression (wrongly) that freebies were for the first post of a new account only. I was mistaken.

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We all make mistakes and blast through sats. But I think frequent freebies from spammers could be limited by only being allowed one per day maybe?

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