make good content and you get sats. Not every post here deserve sats. Some of them are even repeated or are just links from other platforms.

I saw an new influx of users here coming only to "earn sats". I think the goal of this SN is not "earn sats" but to post good content and reward sats when is good.

Airdrop is stupid, this is used only by shitcoins.

I tip sats, but only to those that really deserve it. Usually I redistribute the sats I get here to others, I never withdraw out of SN. And I am here since the beginning of SN.

Its still early days, I only found out about SN a few days ago.

~2200 sats per $ I agree bitcoiners can throw a few more sats around

I agree, since the daily airdrop is based on how good of an "SNer," spreading the love should be taken into account for the best incentives. Especially as the site gets more mainstream, there will be more users trying to pull value out of this site's ecosystem.

I agree with the observation that people aren't tipping as much as they were a month ago. It could just be a case of hodling. Its also possible the airdropping is changing the percieved need to compensate contributors since a 5sat tip is much lower than payout to active authors. To be honest, I've noticed the more effort you put into a post the less likely it will be tipped. The link posters and software authors seem to get most of the gratitude, not that it's bad, just an observation of what people value.

I still don't know the answer to this question ...

Does someone up their "trust" for the WoT from replies?

For example, if someone were to join SN and ONLY reply -- but never post, and never upvote, do their replies get considered for the WoT / Trust as far as the daily drop?