99 sats \ 15 replies \ @k00b 9 Feb \ on: Stacker Saloon
We need to add a cost to mentioning people. It tends to get a little knee-jerk.
Disagree. I have had many people mention "hey thanks for tagging me" in regards to posts for contests or relevant issues that they likely would have missed otherwise.
You probably get tagged more than anyone so I understand the frustration. I think people just need to stop using tagging so liberally. For instance, the other day I was talking to someone and referenced something you had said but instead of writing "@k00b said ...", I just wrote "k00b said ...", so you wouldn't get tagged.
Thoughts?
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I think people just need to stop using tagging so liberally.
That's what adding a user-configurable cost for mentioning them would do, wouldn't it?
I just wrote "k00b said ...", so you wouldn't get tagged.
That's what I do when I'm not trying to get someone's attention.
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Yes but there a legitimate use cases of tagging, so you would be punishing honest actors for something that can be corrected via social pressure.
When I do the SN foundry post and tag all the territory founders, I am tagging 30 people. I don't want to pay say 300 sats to tag them. If I am not providing them valuable info they can ignore but overwhelmingly people have been appreciative and said "thanks for tagging me". Same thing with my football pool. I was tagging 15 people twice a week, first to get picks in and then to recap after the games were done. That again would now cost me 300 sats if it was 10 sats to tag.
Another example Nuttall was doing an accountability post for our pushup challenge. I missed it one day and did another post because I thought he didn't do one. He started doing a roll call tagging us all. That added value.
KR just tagged me today in response to a post regarding SN growth plans because he and I were discussing marketing strategy some days ago. Brining that post to my attention was a benefit to me. I don't think he should have to pay to bring me value.
Whatever you want to do but I think all you need is a post saying "hey guys stop being dicks and tagging me for everything".
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There are second order effects here. If I bring your attention to something valuable you'll likely zap me back.
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Sure, but I am talking more about the optics of it than the pure economics. I am not suggesting I wouldn't pay to tag people.
I suggest a poll to see how the broader community feels about it. With all due respect, I think you are looking for a solution for a very narrow problem here, I am on SN every day multiple times a day and maybe get tagged once a day.
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I think some of us are pretty cavalier about tagging @k00b. I suppose we could cut it out if that would solve the problem.
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I should probably lead by example, though. Don't want to add to any scaling problems.
I still like the idea as something that might be useful long term.
I agree with all of @grayruby's points, but I like @k00b's idea. I especially like making it user customizable. It's sort of a super chat analogue then.
If we want to keep being mentioned a lot, we can just set it at 1sat and I'm sure no one's going to care about that. If we start feeling like we're getting spammed, then it's better if we can be compensated for that cost of using SN.
Maybe this can lure in some big fish, too.
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