complaints seem to come down to the subjectivity of rules 

hard situation, made harder by the reality of it being pretty much impossible to judge the "quality" of tipping at scale now that DEGEN is so big it attracts bad actors to every airdrop season

I continue to think the solution is raising the bar to who gets to receive tips

do it with tasks

make the tasks accessible and open for anyone to do, but make them reasonably difficult

make them related to promoting DEGEN 

and the people who do them are whitelisted for tips

positive sum all around

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This fits your personality, so I can understand why this sounds reasonable. But most people won't do it.

You need people to buy the token. If you lower sell pressure via lower emissions but then lower buy pressure even more, what did you gain? The tip game IS the buy pressure. And he's actually increased the sell pressure bc id guess most ppl who got banned and many who didn't will withdraw from vault and sell. Plus theres ppl like me who would've staked their claim tomorrow but now I'll be selling it. Imo (im no numbers guy) i think this will accomplish the opposite of what you intend. But I'm usually wrong so that bodes well for u

that's the point though, we need less people who can potentially receive tips

and the few that put in the effort? they deserve to be rewarded more for going above and beyond