There's lots of talk about how value being associated with things is a source of signal. Most memorably for me in Max Webster's How to Disrupt Google. Also, stackers have repeatedly voiced expectations that sats affect ranking. So, we're giving it a shot.

Sats now affect ranking. The more you tip a post, the more you can affect ranking.

• In an effort to make this sybil resistant, SN now takes 10% of tips which are distributed in daily rewards (like all other revenue).
• Additionally, as before, your influence on ranking is weighted by your trust which is only earned by historically voting for things other stackers deem are good
• Finally, the relationship between sats contributed and the influence on ranking is not linear, it's logarithmic, i.e. sat whales have to spend exponentially more sats to have more influence than minnows
  • Basically, your affect on ranking is trust*log10(total tip amount) ... 10 sats are 1 vote, 100 sats 2, 1000 sats 3, and so on ... all values in between are valid as well

I've applied this to the site retroactively, and you can see the affect on top already which was formerly dominated by meta stuff. As with all things on SN, this is subject to change, but this is how it works for now.

Are sats good for anything other than saving? We'll see I guess. 😉

We have some small changes we'll make to the job board. Then we are going to work on splits, both making them more configurable (to something other than 100%) and allowing for group discussions. Group discussions will allow posts to be started with multiple OPs, all splitting tips and getting reply notifications, allowing for things like debates and group AMAs. After that I'll probably revisit auth to add support for slashtags and Breez (finally). After that, who knows.

Happy holidays! 🦃