Betting on Comment Tips

Goals

Examples

V1: Tips are tips

design

https://github.com/manifoldmarkets/manifold/pull/469

Backend

comment → { tips: { Alice: 4, Bob -4 } }

store tip amounts in $M

compute rad score, sum in display logic — easy to change later without migration!

txn for tips

debounce submission so if you click 3 times, only 1 txn generated that represents the delta of before/after

Tip structure

rad karma marginal cost total
0 0 0
1 5 5
2 10 15
3 15 30
4 20 50
5 25 75
6 30 105
7 35 140
8 40 180
$n$ $5n$ $2.5n(n + 1)$