Feature Request: Auto-Tip

[ghost]

There is still too much friction associated with making Lightning payments on Stacker News.

Right now, every user must click the small Lightning bolt next to a post or comment to pay that creator.

The result is that across the site, many users will respond to comments and posts and engage in thoughtful dialogue without ever spending money to show their appreciation for the content they're replying to.

To make it easier for users to spend sats on great content, Stacker News should enable an opt-in "auto-tip" feature that automatically tips a user's default tip amount on every post or comment they reply to. This way, the user only needs to reply to a comment or post and no longer needs the extra Lightning bolt click (although the Lightning bolt will still be there if they want to tip more).

This feature could also be expanded to automatically tip every post that a user clicks on from the main page.

[cointastical]

Elegant opt-in solution. I like it.

The only suggestion I might have is where I have flagged a post and then go to comment (e.g., to say why I flagged it), I would not then want the tip to automatically occur. So the logic on this would be to check first if I flagged to post, then to not trigger the auto-tip when I do a reply.

[huumn]

It might be worth having something more generic. I'd say there's 10% of occasions where I comment and don't want to also tip (nor do I want to flag).

Perhaps if you enable auto-tipping, the ui of commenting changes slightly and there's an auto-tip checkbox next to the submit button.

[huumn]

Related #758