1777 sats \ 4 replies \ @k00b 11 Nov 2023 \ on: Feature idea: turn off exponential pricing to encourage long-form writing meta
We introduced self-reply fee escalation to account for an exceptional poster who would self-reply in 3-5 comments to their many link posts with excessive context, ie non-discussion-eliciting comments. People would see their posts and think a discussion was happening, then navigate to see there wasn't a discussion in fact. This was back when many SN posts went uncommented on, thus they singlehandedly made comment count an unreliable signal.
That stacker has found greener pastures by the looks of it, so I'd be up for turning self-reply fee escalation off for OPs to see what it might be retarding.
As a non-writer that values writing, especially when it's done natively here, I'd love to support your writing experiment.
Do you think linear fee escalation (like we've discussed wrt peak pricing) would have discouraged the malfeaser you mentioned?
Maybe that's a middle ground solution that won't reopen the floodgates.
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I don't think it would have. Adding 5 self-replies would've cost them 13 sats in the linear model vs 111110 sats.
We are definitely going to play with peak pricing. I'm not sure it's time just yet.
We are going to set a higher post cost first given it's so low and see where we end up in terms of tradeoffs.
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I hope it's just posts and not also comments.
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Yeah just posts!
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