I noticed that only 100 people are getting daily rewards. That was a new feature introduced in the second month of Million Sat Madness, as I recall.
The purpose, as explained to me by @ek, is to prune the left tail of the distribution and give more rewards to our more substantial contributors. That's great, but 100 is completely arbitrary, so I think we can do better.
Why not make use of our beloved cowboy hats and reserve daily rewards for cowboys?
If it starts seeming like too many people are drawing rewards, make cowboy hats harder to find.
Other Ideas
- Include referrals in the rewards calculation, maybe as daily activity of your referred stackers
- Reward downzapping bad content, as well as zapping top content
- Reward SN donations
- Randomize the parameters in the rewards calculation
- Daily rewards have to be accepted within 24 hours or they go back in the pool
- Factor engagement into top post rankings
- Include all-time stacker value in the rewards calculation
That's it for now. I don't necessarily endorse all of these ideas, but I've been mulling them over and I'm curious what other stackers think.
Are there tweaks to the rewards system that you'd like to see?