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If you allocated F(t) seconds of ripple credit (in HRS) for every user with flair class ( F = { (60,0) , (50, 10), (40, 20), (30,30), (20,40), (10,50), (0,0), {other,0} } ) what is your expected value of this offer?

Given there's roughly 500,000 people with a flair class you'd think it'd be a lot...but it sure seems like the overwhelming majority of the 500,000 chose to feed in '60' or 'other' and it's unclear that would change. It depends on the distribution of the random variable t, roughly corresponding to the probability distribution of these flair classes over the ~40 million users who are given this choice.

Will the offer of a reward for flair classes make it more or less likely that people would coordinate better?
How large of a reward would it have to be in order for there to be any affect whatsoever (given how diverse reddit is...this could be huge)
How would the reward affect/skew the distribution?

Edit: Upon closer inspection: looks like it isn't quite so simple: F(t) is actually (60-t)(H(60-t)H(t)) where t is a natural number {0,1,2,...}.

obviously correct button subreddit is /r/thebutton

[themusicgod1]

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http://www.reddit.com/r/thebut... [reddit.com] suggests that allocating 1:1 would only be an allocation of 9*24 = 216 HRS