162 sats \ 5 replies \ @ek 1 Jul freebie \ parent \ on: SN Zapping and Posting Fees meta
Freebies pay nothing but have limited visibility until zapped by someone with greeter mode enabled.
They don't screw over anyone, it's a feature we've implemented to decrease friction for new stackers and territory owners can disable freebies if they want.
What if zaps to freebies first went to retroactively paying the posting fee before the poster got any?
Once the fee is paid, the "freebie" designation could be dropped.
I did not realize that territories could opt out of freebies. That's a huge difference.
I do realize it's a feature, but when someone abuses it, at the very least, SN is getting screwed a bit.
(I'm thinking mainly of that one person who abused freebies to post links to his medium articles over and over.)
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When there was some spam in ~crypto, I thought about letting territory founders control fees per stacker. This means that they could increase (or decrease) the fee for individual stackers. So they would have two controls to combat spam: base fee + individual fee.
But I am not sure if I ever even told @k00b about this.
Maybe we could also disable freebie on a user-by-user basis.
Registering a new account would defeat this mechanism but maybe it's still effective to some degree. It could be part of a defense-in-depth strategy.
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Medium? He should be excommunicated
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