282 sats \ 3 replies \ @kr 8 Jul 2022 \ on: More and more reddit posts referencing stacker.news - increase ⚡️ cost for posts/comments? bitcoin
I think raising posting/comment fees to reduce bad content is reasonable. 10 sats seems like a good starting point.
A cool side-effect is that by raising posting and comment fees, Stacker News will also have far more sats to give back to the best users each day.
Right now there are roughly 2,200 new items created each week, which only generate 2,200 sats for SN to give back as daily rewards (1 sat per post/comment). This is a tiny portion of all sats SN earns, (the job board generates over 200,000 sats/week and boosts add tens of thousands of sats more).
By bumping the posting and comment fees to 10 sats, users may post slightly less, but it’s likely SN will still generate 5-10x more sats from those fees (10-20,000 sats/week) to give back to users.
As @k00b outlined in yesterday’s SN rewards upgrade, the daily rewards flow directly to the best contributors on the site… so by increasing the posting and comment fees, the best SN contributors should expect to see higher daily rewards.
10 sats for comment sounds good starting point- I think post should be higher?
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Sounds good to me. 10 satoshis is still only 0,002$.
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Or maybe where a fraction of the tip goes to SN? LIke 10% or something? E.g., if I tip a post or comment with 51 sats, the first 1 goes to SN as currently, then 10% of the remaining gives SN another 5. The content that I tipped gets 45 sats.
At SN's nascent phase, content (posts and comments) are too scarce yet. I wouldn't think raising the barrier(s) makes sense yet.
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