Quote from: coupable on July 21, 2025, 12:41:29 PM

It's a little bit different from Btt approach but i still see bitcointalk model more convinient. I would like to comment some of the hints you mentioned:

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- No need to create a SN account: Users can posts anonymously (at a cost)

Bitcointalk is psydoanonymous (i guess SN also collect navigation data so it's not fully anonymous) and all you need is a new fresh email (to not link with your official one) and you can start posting without any cost.

Yes correct, I think is moore we need to agree on the terminology. What I meant is that SN offers both options:
- full anonymity when posting as @anon (I guess only IP is tracked in this case) no email no any type of registration required (I assume this is not possible with BTT)
- partial anonymity as SN offers multiple ways to create an account (Lightning-LNURL, Nostr protocol keys signature)
- psydoanonymously when, as here, one register an account using an external registered account, that could be email address or X/twitter and a nym (psydoanonymous) - However, SN from my understanding does not store much user data, everything is cached and encripted in the browser cache (take this with a grain of salt - can't verify myself, just read about that in the meta forum itself)

Quote from: coupable on July 21, 2025, 12:41:29 PM

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- Pay2Post drastically reduce spam posts and automated bots, even with symbolic amount of 1 sat per comment

Totally the opposite. The pay-per-post model encourage spam especially with low rates. Never compare it to btc paid signature campaigns because managers care hiring quality posters, but i suggest you visit the "Bounties" sub-board and see mashrooming spam which even forum mods find it difficult (almost impossible) to fight especially the altcoins board. You can also check a spammy forum called Cryptotalk used pay-per-post just to advertise Yobit exchange. (Not sure if it still running)

Thak you for sharing your opinion. It's obvious that your experience can tell much more of what users in SN currently believe (myself included). This change my perspective thought ad I agree where there's honey, there are bees but also teddy bears. How strong will be the bees to protect the honey? It
's really good to know this has, and still, been experienced here in BTT already. We definitely have plenty still to learn.

Quote from: coupable on July 21, 2025, 12:41:29 PM

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- Community moderation offer the benefits to make more visible posts that have been upvoted (with zaps) and less visible posts that have been downvoted (downzap = pay to push visibility down)

I suggest you compare it with the merit system here. There is no downzap=downvote here, just merit points for quality contributions. If you don't like a poster, just ignore it. If you think a post is spam or low quality, just report it to mods.

I probably agree with you on this as well. What I noticed is that power can be used maliciously in SN as the voice of users with more "weight" (acquired over time with strategy learning from the code) can be more beneficial and literally profitable for those same malicious users. There's still a lot to learn on how the system works. Not everyone is able to read between the lines of the open source code!

From our perspective, we are just operating as moderator of the AGORA territory, the marketplace. We aim to learn and operate it ethically and provide as much education for users to avoid being screw by scammers. I feel BTT is a good place to learn about the challenges that have been presented in past 14 years, and having conversations with users like you, that has been around for long time, help us learn faster how to behave here, but also how to bring this knowledge in other platforms.