Tips Tips Tips - My little suggestion for Hive platforms...

Good Morning All

I wanted to go back one month, back to my first introduction post. My dear friend and Hive onboarding mentor @awah told me to write a post introducing myself whilst using the introduction hashtag, so far so good. Receiving the first upvotes was great, whilst also seeing some of the first encouraging comments.

But then I see a comment saying !PIZZA. With my developer background I of course read that as "No Pizza", and I was there wondering - "What is this?". Was @awah's account hacked? Was this some sort of cryptic / secret code? A quick what's app message and I got reminded about Hive Tips! Aha, now that makes sense.

Since then, I think I understand a little more about Hive tips and the various elements that I list below. I've also bought/staked the minimum amount of WINE and PIZZA tokens. If I'm not mistaken I believe you need 25 staked Wine or 20 Pizza tokens to be able to tip. As a newbie, I was not sure how to even buy them, until I was told about Hive-Engine

The best thing about the Pizza token is that you get the Pizza badge on your profile! Great, then I was happy 😁

So now that I've set myself up, I was able to tip people accordingly. I must admit that my first attempt at tipping had failed, as I did not have the required amount of staked tokens. #learning

But then upon using tips I started noticing all of "screen space" being used by the tipping tokens themselves. You can see the Pizza comment below; some of the other tips take a bigger amount of screen estate.

I did read on a separate thread that someone has muted these tipping agents. I don't know how that is done, but surely that's not the right solution??

I keep thinking if it's perhaps better for the platforms (@peakd , @ecency , #leofinance ?) if they can integrate such tips better in their UI. Perhaps one can suggest showing an aggregation of the tips at the bottom of the post itself. I do fully understand that the visual element is also "marketing" for the tipping token itself so it's marketing is important, but I am not convinced that taking estate from the comments section is the right way to do it. Not sure about you, but I find that "tip posts" break the flow of the conversation.

What do you guys think?

cc: @pizzabot @wine.bot @ecency @peakd