I don’t think any of our events should be exclusionary. If we’re going to the effort of holding an event, there’s no reason to exclude South Pacificans who want to participate because they weren’t previously active on the right platforms or aren’t from the right ‘locale.’
That doesn’t mean we don’t want any events on the RMB, but what you’re asking for is still really quite rare — the only vaguely recent thing that comes to mind are debate days, and that was over a year ago, and it still had polls here on the forums to decide the topics. As another example, just this last term, Ray ran a scavenger hunt event with clues posted on the RMB — but submissions were done by telegram, not by RMB post, and frankly I think very few people who logged in hours after the clue was posted would ever find it if the link to the clues wasn’t posted on other platforms. It’s perfectly natural for our events to span multiple platforms instead of being exclusive to a single one.
We’ll workshop this, including the naming — this is good feedback! — but what I’d say here is don’t judge a book by its cover. There isn’t one casino or bookie in the real world that tries to offer you a positive expected value. Maybe a ‘trade-in’ program would be better?
Even without a positive expected value, at a fundamental level, I don’t think this is any different from saying, “please donate cards to us, and we’ll gift some back to you.” Viet was talking about ‘donator rewards’ a year ago and nobody complained 