agemo inquires about the existence of a feature that allows users to monetize their posts through tips or payments, similar to a button. NateDhaliwal confirms that such a feature is not part of core Discourse or available as a plugin, suggesting the Discourse Subscriptions plugin as the closest alternative. agemo elaborates on the idea, suggesting a tip button could encourage user content creation and loyalty, and even include a tax/commission component to support hosting costs. chapoi shares a similar feature suggestion, and agemo adds their vote to it. agemo further expands the idea, proposing a system where users can allocate a portion of their subscription credits to tip other users. pfaffman cautions about the complexity and cost of implementing such a system, estimating it could range from $5,000 to $15,000. cuo_wu shares an example of a forum that uses a credit system for rewards and transfers.
Whiel searching ko-fi implementation, I was wondering was there anything in terms of helping to monetise posts creation for users, not just the admin/site owner.
Not just a post but some people might liek to also send some button to a post - a tip button, a paid-like, whatever you want to call it.
There is also an aspect to Pay out for likes + views metrics but right now I’m thinking direct tip from other users including unregistered lurkers too!
Is there anything out there already developed or not?
Definitely not part of core, and AFAIK there is no plugin for this (existing tipping plugins seem to be broken). The closest thing I can see is Discourse Subscriptions Plugin.
Thanks for the response. I was aware of the subs model via the subs plugin but this is a model that might encourage user content creation and loyalty of both top creators and readers alike.
It is more more nuanced that sub support for the site, but hey the highlights the potential to add a Tax / Commission component to the tip-button use it to also help fund hosting etc. and who doesn’t love a bit of TAX!
Declaring soveringhty will be next are there any components for that?
I woudl like to add one more feature idea to the overall idea that might work with the existing subscription plugin, with added extra tip-post thinking.
A user credits up their sub account, i.e. via Sub 120 a year. (10 per month)
The site/admin has set all user sub privilege to allow 10% of that sub value used and distributed in tips internally on the discourse to user via post tips (and also user tups) by the subscriber.
If they want to tip more they can credit up there sub more, so say they want to budget an extra 100 a year for tips, they credit up the sub account in total 240, where at least 100 get’s reserved for tips or 112 including the 10% default reserve from sub total.
Running a whole transition via CC per tip would probably be too much overhead on various counts (but you might need that option also but it would probably be best to package as sign up for a subs with ability to to tip and get great content i.e. tips feature is bundled as part of the sub offer), and allowing a credit up system integrated into the already existing subscriptions system (plugin)
This would probably be the best course, or that’s my latest thinking on the idea and how it might actually happen.
In this instance subscriptions work to support two good works:
Subs support the site
% of subs support user content creation (incentivises) and is user directed / decided.
Arranging to pay out money is a whole other level of complexity that I think neither the Subscriptions plugin nor Stripe is equipped to handle. You could do payouts with PayPal, but it would still require a pretty complicated setup for any user wanting a payout (at least I think that’s what I remember from looking at this before).
In other words, I think doing payouts is a $5,000-10,000 problem (probably more with proper tests to have it the same quality as core code). And then working out a tips credit system is probably another $2000-5000.
a post but some people might liek to also send some 
