Planned, but kind of lowish priority. I have a github sponsor account if you like paying in fait https://github.com/sponsors/stackernews

I don't like the idea because it decouples value from content and instead assigns value to identity/reputation. People change, but comments stay.

Say a valuable contributor suddenly turns shitcoiner for whatever reason. His earlier posts should still hold the same value. But the shitcoin content wouldn't get promoted much if at all.

But if people were to use donations received in the past as a way to measure someone's current quality of posts, then I fear there would be a perverse side effect of potentially promoting bad content based on unrelated, unknown or forgotten contributions. (Think of newcoiners trying to get a sense of who to reach out to or follow for truthful help or information)

We always have the possibility of adding a donation address or invoice to our bio. And how much someone received in donations as a person shouldn't necessarily be made public unless they chose to. I understand content is never totally separate from who authored it, but we should aim for that distinction because some people will change, some coats will turn, yet that shouldn't invalidate any past or future statement on its own.

I like that you aren't allowed to edit a post after some minutes because I wouldn't want to tip something which then gets edited to say the opposite. I would even argue that editing one's post should reset the associated sats count to zero (and possibly send those back to their original owners).