What does everyone think of getting rid of the notion of upvotes? It's kind of vestigial. Instead:
a post would start out with zero sats (although users would still pay 1 sat to post it) and the 'sats' amount would be strictly what they've earned
tapping the lightning icon would always work like a tip ... if you configure your tip amount to be 10 sats, every click of the lightning icon would be 10 sats - not 1 sat then 10 sats
I feel like this is conceptually simpler.
Then for ranking, we don't consider upvotes, we consider the count of how many users have tipped.
I like the idea. Is it possible and reasonable to make a mix of both for the ranking mechanism?
A bad actor now needs more effort(create several accs.) and has to put more value(sats) in to push his own stuff
When I stack (earn) sats from posts and comments on SN, I would like to see those sats automatically redistributed to other contributors in some way. I'm happy topping up my wallet to pay for my activities (posts, comments, upvotes, etc.) but I would love to see those funds that are earned on SN re-circulating. I could do that manually, but I'ld like to see some way I can configure my account where this would be done in an automated fashion.
What do you think of this idea?
Let's say today I earned (stacked) 50 sats. At the end of the day, I'ld like to see those 50 sats I earned get re-distributed automatically to other contributors. Maybe this distribution amount of 50 sats goes into a pot and that pot gets divided evenly to anyone who posted a comment that day. Or evenly to any new posts for that day, ..., or maybe some allocation that is proportionate (posts with a higher number of upvotes gets a greater share of this daily redistribution pot).
It doesn't need to be complicated ... I simply mark a configuration setting like "auto-redistribute stacked earnings?" or something like that. Then any time I stack (earn) sats .... instead of those going into my wallet balance, they go into the "auto-redistribution' pot.
Again, this would (should) be totally voluntary -- i.e., opt-in rather than the default.
But I think if this were implemented it would result in an increase the financial reward (quantity of sats stacked) for those who contribute content (posts, and/or comments) here on SN -- a feature that is the primary thing that differentiates SN from the numerous other social media (HackerNews, Reddit, etc.).
I would like to configure the number of sats I spend for one "tap" (when upvoting).
I tire of tapping 10 times or 20 times (to get to 10 or 20 sats), and the long-press requires more than just a mouse click, so I rarely do that.
The end result is that I end up spending fewer sats than I otherwise would.
I almost always leave any pennies I receive in the "give a penny / take a penny" tin at the store, without a second thought (that's ~20 sats each), but when tapping I get to 5 or 10 sats and think, "*OK, maybe that's helpful".
If I knew one tap was 20 sats, ... I might be more inclined to give 100 sats for a post I am appreciative to see. If I set my default "per tap" amount to 20 sats, and I think ... no, this one gets just a single sat, or whatever, I can use the long press, and manually type in the 1 sat, or whatever.
The default for new accounts can be 1 sat per click, but those of use who want to do more to support SN, or, to more easily re-distribute that sats that have been stacked from our posts, the ability to configure a higher number of sats per tap would be a nice feature.
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