Whaleshares has changed to a fully tip based model. There is stake based daily reward for all holders of WLS and you can choose to keep it or use some to tip good posts. There were many not happy when it came in, mostly the ones who just upvoted their own posts and those of their circle. Many had their doubts that people would reach into their own pocket and tip good content creators. Well a few months in and people are happy to tip. It is like busking and for me personally it is working quite well.
Your suggestion of adding it as a feature on top could be a great test maybe Steempeak could make it so.
ps I must check out Lbry
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Didn't know that's the route they took, that's really interesting.
I only see people tipping each other though. I don't see new users benefitting from the tipping that much at all. At least with a vote, a person can later rescind it if they find out that the stuff they voted on was someone else's work. That doesn't exist there.
I think new users would be some of the greatest beneficiaries with this. Reason why is as a new user, how long till you can really participate in the system? How much SP do you have to have to have a .01 cent upvote. I think it's a poor user experience for new users to come in and feel like they're on the outside looking in unless they invest a relatively large amount of money considering they're probably coming from platforms where everything is free.
Again LBRY is the proof of what I'm saying, everyone is tipping each other, I started getting tipped immediately. It's just a different culture because the culture will follow the features you develop for the users to use. You said you're not that into the blogging part of Steem, but that's what the vast majority of the users are doing here, so I think it would dramatically lower the barrier to entry for those people.
Why not have both?
That's what I'm suggesting, not this as a replacement for upvotes.
I’d love to see that change. It’s just a simple front end change as well.
Things are a bit quiet at the moment on Whaleshares regarding new people coming in. Each member still needs to be approved by the witnesses but when they do arrive they get a lot of support from the existing community and quickly gain staked wls to allow them to use the network.
Whether this tipping system will work or not in the long term is anyone's guess but it is nice to see other approaches on how to distribute tokens from the pool.
No, if you know someone with an account who's willing to pay to create you an account you can. And even in the past, a pay to create account system existed.