202 sats \ 12 replies \ @kr 12 Jan 2023 \ parent \ on: Stacker News: Why can't I delete my own posts? Please let us delete posts! bitcoin
one thing that deleting posts introduces is the question of what to do with the sats.
if i tip someone sats for their post, i’d feel disappointed if they immediately deleted it.
@calle, what do you think of making the user pay back the amount of sats they were tipped in order to delete their post?
I think the model of reddit is quite good: just delete it and don't care about the Karma. Would be a huge pita to roll back all tips for a single post. Tipped is tipped 🤷
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fair point, it is a simpler appproach.
however, one difference between karma & sats is that people think twice about spending their sats, there is no downside for giving karma on reddit.
amplifying content on SN has a real cost, and comes with an implicit promise that your sats will go towards spreading the message you are supporting.
breaking that promise with users by letting anyone delete their posts for free could lead to fewer people tipping overall.
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as a counter-argument, not allowing post deletion at all could also be preventing people from even posting in the first place.
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sats on deleted posts could be donated to the rewards pool
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This is a great idea 💡
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yup, makes sense that fees for deleting a post go directly back to the best users.
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Won't work though as the sats are already sent to the poster right? I think tipped is tipped, what happens after then is no one else's business.
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The way I see it, if a post stacked sats, that means the content was valued by someone. By removing the content you're essentially removing the value it produced. On this conjecture, The optimal way would be to give the sats back to where they came from. This is probably a bit tricky to implement, so the next best move is to give the sats back to the community.
sats are already sent to the poster right?
Yeah, so he needs to send them back if he wants to remove.
It's iust my opinion though
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Absolutely not
Default convention is the zapped money is sent and done with.
Simply don’t allow people to delete their post if someone zapped it. If your content has never been zapped then sure, allow the user to delete.
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I don't think the conjecture is correct. The content provided value to a person that read it. They rewarded the author with sats for this value. When the post is now removed, the value transfer already happened... The reader already got their value from the post.
So it doesn't sound like returning the sats is a right approach.
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I for one won't care strongly if someone deletes a post I tipped. I also would like the freedom to delete posts and keep my tips.
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Ahh I see what you mean. That is a good way to do it. Would increase friction against people deleting for the sake of it. And would also encourage hopefully better content to start with.
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