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June 10, 2013, 09:24:44 PM
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Hi all, i've had a new idea. inorder to act as a middleman to all the trades, i suggest we add a tipping feature to the forum. this feature can be used for a bevy of reasons:

PROS:

  • Tip users for being helpful solving problems
  • alleviates doubt on scam accusations. proves without a shadow of a doubt whether a scam occured.
  • provides loan payments. if user never pays and essentially bails out a scam thread is started, scammer is banned and ip address and contact info turned over to the victimized party.
  • adds incentive to posters to be helpful while discouraging trolling

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June 10, 2013, 09:52:24 PM
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Tipping would be awesome! I have often wanted to tip people who make quality, informed, posts. It will motivate people to do exactly that.
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June 10, 2013, 09:53:27 PM
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Hi all, i've had a new idea. inorder to act as a middleman to all the trades, i suggest we add a tipping feature to the forum. this feature can be used for a bevy of reasons:

PROS:

  • Tip users for being helpful solving problems
  • alleviates doubt on scam accusations. proves without a shadow of a doubt whether a scam occured.
  • provides loan payments. if user never pays and essentially bails out a scam thread is started, scammer is banned and ip address and contact info turned over to the victimized party.
  • adds incentive to posters to be helpful while discouraging trolling

CONS:

not known at this time, but we all know that no system is perfect. join me in my effort to perfect this proposition for a better bitcointalk.org

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This is not a new idea, Theymos has already said he doesn't feel comfortable having any wallets managed by the forums, and someone is already making a tipBot despite him.

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June 10, 2013, 09:53:29 PM
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It's been talked about some before, I think for the most part it's not really used (going off of tips people get from addresses in profile/sigs).
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June 10, 2013, 09:54:01 PM
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It's been talked about some before, I think for the most part it's not really used (going off of tips people get from addresses in profile/sigs).
This too.

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June 10, 2013, 09:54:08 PM
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Hi all, i've had a new idea. inorder to act as a middleman to all the trades, i suggest we add a tipping feature to the forum. this feature can be used for a bevy of reasons:

PROS:

  • Tip users for being helpful solving problems
  • alleviates doubt on scam accusations. proves without a shadow of a doubt whether a scam occured.
  • provides loan payments. if user never pays and essentially bails out a scam thread is started, scammer is banned and ip address and contact info turned over to the victimized party.
  • adds incentive to posters to be helpful while discouraging trolling

CONS:

not known at this time, but we all know that no system is perfect. join me in my effort to perfect this proposition for a better bitcointalk.org

r3wt

This is not a new idea, Theymos has already said he doesn't feel comfortable having any wallets managed by the forums, and someone is already making a tipBot despite him.

The tipbot won't be a wallet controlled by the forum  Tongue
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June 10, 2013, 09:57:27 PM
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Hi all, i've had a new idea. inorder to act as a middleman to all the trades, i suggest we add a tipping feature to the forum. this feature can be used for a bevy of reasons:

PROS:

  • Tip users for being helpful solving problems
  • alleviates doubt on scam accusations. proves without a shadow of a doubt whether a scam occured.
  • provides loan payments. if user never pays and essentially bails out a scam thread is started, scammer is banned and ip address and contact info turned over to the victimized party.
  • adds incentive to posters to be helpful while discouraging trolling

CONS:

not known at this time, but we all know that no system is perfect. join me in my effort to perfect this proposition for a better bitcointalk.org

r3wt

This is not a new idea, Theymos has already said he doesn't feel comfortable having any wallets managed by the forums, and someone is already making a tipBot despite him.

The tipbot won't be a wallet controlled by the forum  Tongue

Exactly the point. And the fact that you'd need to send someone your bitcoins in order to use them for tipping is a bit derpy too. I wouldn't use it.

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June 10, 2013, 09:59:27 PM
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some all around good points from both of you. perhap we could gather all of the reputable escrows and allow them to manage the wallets. give them a cut.

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June 10, 2013, 10:01:32 PM
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some all around good points from both of you. perhap we could gather all of the reputable escrows and allow them to manage the wallets. give them a cut.

Why bother? There is nothing here that a wallet plugin in the browser wouldn't solve. Blockchain.info already made one that connects to the BitcoinQT on the desktop through the API, why wouldn't it work like that for sending tips?

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June 10, 2013, 10:06:03 PM
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Just display you're Bitcoin address and ask for tips if they liked you're post etc. It's the same principle but without the hassle of having a tip bot.
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June 10, 2013, 10:28:03 PM
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Just display you're Bitcoin address and ask for tips if they liked you're post etc. It's the same principle but without the hassle of having a tip bot.
Totally agree. Why even try to overcomplicate the situation?

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June 10, 2013, 10:45:16 PM
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Also now you can put a bitcoin address in the forum profile.

^^ This

A tip thing sounds cool at first, but people are hardly going to use it.  It's just not worth implementing, plus I can imagine it'd lead to hacking attempts and more begging.
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June 10, 2013, 10:45:58 PM
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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=201018.0;all

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June 11, 2013, 10:53:08 AM
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I'll add a Con:

No one tips! It'll be completely pointless, and unused. I haven't come across a single post that someone tipped another person, or gave away coins for free.

(P.s. I'm sure they are out there, you don't have to search the whole forum to prove me wrong. But it's not very common.)
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June 11, 2013, 11:38:11 AM
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No one tips!
What about Bitcoinbillionaire? This guy has been giving away over $10k worth of bitcoins Grin

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June 11, 2013, 12:06:04 PM
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I'll add a Con:

No one tips! It'll be completely pointless, and unused. I haven't come across a single post that someone tipped another person, or gave away coins for free.

(P.s. I'm sure they are out there, you don't have to search the whole forum to prove me wrong. But it's not very common.)

I've seen a few, though they're not very common.

I've offered to tip someone (can't remember who it was) but they respectfully declined because they didn't need it.

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