Yes I believe that we need to see data from all sides, and a merit pool and a non-merit pool of members to see who would even qualify is data that is useful to the conversation.
And I am all in favor of a choose your reward. a, extar bond, b, a free ticket to a tv.net event, c. an epic prank...
As a person who has been active in this community for almost 17 years, even I don't have enough to reach the +1.
At some point we need to look at this community and say, if it is only applicable to 5 people is it really worth it?
Th Merit Gap and Wealth Gap are starting to look eerily similar.