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Title: Does anybody ACTUALLY tip? If so, why/when? How much?
Post by: johnniewalker on October 19, 2013, 08:02:09 PM
I always get a kick out of it when I see somebody with an address in their sig looking for tips. Does anyone actually tip? HAS anyone actually tipped? I did once (maybe twice) to John K. for his escrow service, like .02 (what a guy I am).


Title: Re: Does anybody ACTUALLY tip? If so, why/when? How much?
Post by: dank on October 19, 2013, 09:09:05 PM
I've tipped .0420 before. ;D

Do it for karma.


Title: Re: Does anybody ACTUALLY tip? If so, why/when? How much?
Post by: jackjack on October 19, 2013, 09:21:56 PM
I tipped a couple of times and received some too


Title: Re: Does anybody ACTUALLY tip? If so, why/when? How much?
Post by: nobbynobbynoob on October 20, 2013, 03:26:19 AM
There might not be as much of it going around as there used to be. It's more common on Reddit now via the tipbots.

I occasionally tip typically between 50k satoshi and 2,5 mBTC for quality/appreciation.

When I made my maiden post on Bitcointalk, the very kind and generous minimalB tipped me 500 mBTC for my trouble! That I haven't forgotten.

I have heard in Bitcointalk folklore that in the earliest days, tips of BTC50 or BTC100 were not unusual.


Title: Re: Does anybody ACTUALLY tip? If so, why/when? How much?
Post by: johnniewalker on October 20, 2013, 05:27:20 AM
I've tipped .0420 before. ;D

Do it for karma.
Glad to see you are still with us! How are things?


Title: Re: Does anybody ACTUALLY tip? If so, why/when? How much?
Post by: escrow.ms on October 20, 2013, 06:02:07 AM
I got tips many times and grabbed many bounties too here. :)
Last time i got tipped here.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=310801.msg3339412#msg3339412


Title: Re: Does anybody ACTUALLY tip? If so, why/when? How much?
Post by: escrow.ms on October 20, 2013, 08:06:01 AM
I tipped a couple of times and received some too

I have given you some. :D


Title: Re: Does anybody ACTUALLY tip? If so, why/when? How much?
Post by: operrajunk74 on October 20, 2013, 08:11:36 AM
I have heard in Bitcointalk folklore that in the earliest days, tips of BTC50 or BTC100 were not unusual.

I believe this. Bitcoin was very experimental and one block was not worth more than today tips (around 0.01 probably)


Title: Re: Does anybody ACTUALLY tip? If so, why/when? How much?
Post by: dank on October 20, 2013, 02:09:02 PM
I've tipped .0420 before. ;D

Do it for karma.
Glad to see you are still with us! How are things?
All is swell n well.  Bout to put down a few years of work on guitar and see if we can't get moving off the ground.


Title: Re: Does anybody ACTUALLY tip? If so, why/when? How much?
Post by: MakeBelieve on October 20, 2013, 03:24:23 PM
I only tip if people have posted something which really helped me. For example I'm having trouble with something and they come up with a solution.


Title: Re: Does anybody ACTUALLY tip? If so, why/when? How much?
Post by: b!z on October 21, 2013, 01:27:20 PM
I tip useful people. I do not tip people who post "PLZ DONATE IF DIS HELPPED U: 1kJijfijejwi13359153"


Title: Re: Does anybody ACTUALLY tip? If so, why/when? How much?
Post by: OleOle on October 21, 2013, 01:45:25 PM
I tip useful people. I do not tip people who post "PLZ DONATE IF DIS HELPPED U: 1kJijfijejwi13359153"

Yeah, I don't have my address listed as I'm not looking for tips and I also get tired of seeing people beg for fractions of coins.

I've tipped for genuine help, like I won't forget the person who started the thread on how to get BFL refunds and when the refund came through, I figured it was definitely worth a tip. (Page 12 here, worth reading the whole thread if you're looking for a refund, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=295187.220 )

I think it's a good thing that people tip. I tip fiat in restaurants, some taxi drivers and some insistent hotel doormen or bellboys although I generally go by the expression, "I tip for good service, not for bad."

Nice to see people tipping on bitcointalk I reckon.

:)



Title: Re: Does anybody ACTUALLY tip? If so, why/when? How much?
Post by: btceic on October 21, 2013, 01:59:53 PM
Check out reddit, they have a very robust tipping eco-system, also /r/bitcoin/

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/


Title: Re: Does anybody ACTUALLY tip? If so, why/when? How much?
Post by: xypos on October 21, 2013, 02:00:53 PM
I never did but I saw some people doing it (with proofs).


Title: Re: Does anybody ACTUALLY tip? If so, why/when? How much?
Post by: nobbynobbynoob on October 21, 2013, 02:05:20 PM
If BCTers post an inputs.io id in their signature, it makes tipping a lot easier because we can send each other mBTC tips without the transaction fees (eureka!).