Tip:
A short list, written in the form of a love letter to whoever is shipping the per-paragraph tipping tool I have been using. None of these are urgent. All of them would change the texture of using it.
A leaderboard of paragraphs, not articles. Right now the discovery surface is article-level. The actual unit of value here is the paragraph. A page that ranks the top-tipped lines across the site would tell me more about taste than any author page can. It would also become, after a few hundred articles, a strange and good anthology of the internet.
A public commitment from authors. The writer says: half of what people tip this article goes to a named cause. The contract enforces it on claim. Now every tip is also a small donation, and the reader knows it before tapping. This kind of thing only works when the splitting is visible on-chain.
Reader polls inside an article. Not a separate widget, just a paragraph that asks a question with two or three options. Tap on the option you want. The vote is on-chain. Authors get a much sharper picture of which line did what to whom.
A "tip the silence" button at the end. Some pieces hit you and you do not want to single out one paragraph. You want to acknowledge the whole. A separate end-of-article tip, larger than a per-paragraph one, would let that exist without diluting the per-paragraph signal above.
If you are building this and want a second pair of eyes, I will trade tea for a chat. Find me through the usual channels.