<story><title>Tip Jar</title><url>https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2021/introducing-tip-jar.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anonytrary</author><text>I remember in 2017 in &amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;dogecoin, we would tip each other thousands of doge (back then, it was 1&amp;#x2F;10th of a penny) for &amp;quot;such many random and much wow comment in forum&amp;quot;. This was achieved with a DOGE tipping bot.&lt;p&gt;This idea &lt;i&gt;will&lt;/i&gt; most likely work if Twitter starts supporting it as a first class feature. And maybe it will encourage people to speak about things that are valuable. Or maybe it will continue to encourage the Twitter mob to just tear the other side apart. I don&amp;#x27;t know.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pcthrowaway</author><text>Not sure if you remember what happened with that. The creator of dogetipbot held the money that wasn&amp;#x27;t withdrawn, then eventually froze withdrawals and absconded with a possible fortune (they claimed they were burning it to pay for ridiculous server costs, but I can&amp;#x27;t imagine running it would cost more than $20&amp;#x2F;week unless it was horrendously misconfigured)</text></comment>
<story><title>Tip Jar</title><url>https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2021/introducing-tip-jar.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anonytrary</author><text>I remember in 2017 in &amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;dogecoin, we would tip each other thousands of doge (back then, it was 1&amp;#x2F;10th of a penny) for &amp;quot;such many random and much wow comment in forum&amp;quot;. This was achieved with a DOGE tipping bot.&lt;p&gt;This idea &lt;i&gt;will&lt;/i&gt; most likely work if Twitter starts supporting it as a first class feature. And maybe it will encourage people to speak about things that are valuable. Or maybe it will continue to encourage the Twitter mob to just tear the other side apart. I don&amp;#x27;t know.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rawtxapp</author><text>On the other hand &amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;cryptocurrency introduced &amp;quot;moons&amp;quot; as tipping mechanism and the quality of the discussions went downhill &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; quick. Nowadays, there&amp;#x27;s lots of sob stories or random posts about how a person just bought in to some random coin, personal anecdotes, etc.&lt;p&gt;I think whatever tipping is implemented needs to be pretty much worthless (aka mostly symbolic), otherwise, people will just spend a lot of their time just trying to game it. In many parts of the world, even making a couple dollars a day is more than they would make in their local economy.</text></comment>