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SN must remove the rewards pool if really want to be "shitcoiners free" or "bots free"
Ok was understandable in the beginning to fine tune the system and the algo, but now is time to move on and remove the rewards.
I know it sounds heretical... But I actually like the rewards. I'm not sure how they're figured...
But paying my AI prompts with sats I've stacked on stacker news is one of the coolest things I've user a computer for.
using sats stacked from stacker news to buy stuff in the world is so awesome
I took some sats I earned from stacker... (Over an lnaddress to my own node) from some articles I wrote and went to steak n shake and bought fries.
It blew my mind
sats stacked on SN have been funding my hosting fees for my website for two years. it's so cool!
My first lightning wallet was actually SN, back when they were custodial.
I think my first purchase made over lightning was from the custodial SN wallet.
Personally, I'd support SN going back to custodial (!!). I know the legal headache might not be worth it, but I think it was a great introduction to lightning.
It's not heretical. Darth is one of the few who thinks rewards shouldn't exist.
The mindset is: if I can get it for free, why pay? And let’s be real, Stacker News isn’t exactly a social media (doom scroll) vibe, it’s more of a forum. Forums are still a niche thing online, and the crowd there is just different from your typical social media users.
You pay to post. That's it.
I do not post here hoping that somebody will zap me a shit ton of sats. Nope. I post because I pay to say something.
Even this reply cost me 1 sat. That's fucking cheap!
You pay to post for the quality of content. There is no "free"... someone pays somewhere. That's the beauty of stacker news.
But even before the current era of bot-swarms, social media had gotten pretty rough: it was either algos or mods and who enjoys either? I think SN has the potential to fix both (and deal with the bots), but my sense is that most people have a pretty strong resistance to pay to post.