8 sats \ 4 replies \ @k00b 20 Jan 2022 \ on: Daily discussion thread
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
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Maybe. Every new variable we add increases both complexity and attack surface. We can experiment with it though. Nothing is off the table really.
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I didn't even know that tips and upvotes were different.
So I can't upvote like 100X by tipping 100 sats?
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No, it's ranked by the number of users who have tipped, not the total tip amount. Otherwise whales would control the front page rather than the plebs.
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