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https://farcaster.dep.dev/poll/66ab12460b0a84500fb174f3

Poll to increase ham to 250K for daily allo...

I voted NO--not for my benefit--250K is fine w/ me. 

We need MORE people using HAM.

This would be an INSIDER move--more fun, exciting, & valuable for an even smaller group of people (including me).

We need to make OUTSIDER-friendly decisions & make onboarding welcoming

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Hey dude!!

In the hamliest (that’s ham+friendly btw) way possible, I’m going to push back a little just to play devil’s advocate.

Everyone already benefits from ham because at any time they can receive on-chain ham tips. 

By requiring a 250K allotment, it helps to eliminate low-quality casts and engagement. 

I remember when 1 🍖 = 100 ham points and how crazy that all was before ham chain went live. If the allotment is too low then anyone and everyone will flood the timelines for ham scraps. We want ham meals: high quality ham casts, ham castooors and ham replyooors. I don’t think we get ham meals by giving everyone access to it. 

Quality engagooors can earn about ~100K ham per month (about what I’ve received). In 2.5 months they’re there. But if they want to fast track their ability to tip, they can buy it. (Right now it would only cost $104.50 USD.)

In a way, this system is kinda like a power badge but way better and more hammier lol

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I believe that there’s two main barriers to quality ham content:

1. Ham (and all that it entails) is confusing to newcomers. Memes help alleviate this greatly, but there’s several factors at play that make understanding ham difficult, the main one being that there is not a “singular source of truth” as the devs say. Right now, Ham is understood by digesting content on Medium, Farcaster (/ham & /lp ), ham.fun, and thebasedlp.xyz. 

2. There’s a lack of high-quality “consumer content” creators on Farcaster right now. Compare FC to IG, Snapchat, TikTok, X and Twitch… It’s easy for degens to spend 30 minutes on the toilet without realizing it - but normies won’t. They’re gonna do that with their eyeballs fixed in other places. I think two things need to happen: 1) FC needs to become more “consumer friendly” - primarily through easily digestible video content, and 2) Ham needs way more use cases. Use cases fuel loyalty and understanding.

At this point it’s ham degens entertaining ham degens while trying to avoid interacting with bots.

Love the push back and discussion! Thanks. You've got me thinking...

So, I would say the #1 thing by far HAM needs is better content and posts that get tipped and get rid of all the riff-raff....so totally with you there. 👊 

So, you're point is let's make the tippers smaller group and more powerful and let the onboarding be coming in and create good content and get tipped and then work your way to an allo....I love that if it would work that way. 

You've got me thinking....but I don't know if you've persuaded me yet. I don't know what the best way to get great content is and make the switch from where we are now, yours is an interesting argument. 

Love convos like this in ham...about how to make it a better use case. 🫡