Two more ideas:

Images when they are valuable are a key point in a well formatted post. Perhaps they can be hidden by default and a fee could be applied to show them immediately.

Or always ask a payment and show them immediately but refund the fee when the post earn X sats, as a prove they are valuable.

dtonon

We had it so that adding links/images were more expensive previously. We changed it though. We can reintroduce it.

Perhaps the solution is to give users the option to not see images though, like they are hidden by default and have to be clicked to be revealed.

k00b

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Best thing about Stacker News is it's TEXT

l0k1

101% agree

@k00b have you ever think about a fee to include external medias? I see two major benefits:

1) User will include only valuable images because is disincentivated to waste sats.

2) Links can broke "corrupting" the message, so the overall SN content value could lower in the time. With a fee you can think to fetch the media and replicate and preserve it on your hosting.

Just my 2 sats :)