The message for new people is intentionally vague to avoid having people try to game the system: creating and zapping good content will earn you rewards, as will referring new users. 

I think that's smart, but you're right that it needs to somehow also be more obvious what that actually means and the scheme itself can always be improved.

Undisciplined

Oh I'm not saying you shouldn't! On the contrary, you're underscoring what's clearly a failure in the scheme that must be corrected. That goes even beyond schooling people, it's a more fundamental error. And thank you for bringing it up

didiplaywell

For the Love of Territories, Zap Big and Zap Often

> the answer is always the hard cold scheme that drives the compass

People do need to be made aware of the incentive structure, though. That's the point of these posts. I know it's in the faq, but that doesn't resonate with everyone, so I occasionally try a different angle on conveying the point to people.