Hi guys! I am a researcher working on the airdrop design. I wanted to reiterate a couple of points to hopefully lower your frustration and address your comments.
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We are seeing some sybil activity around the Userdrop, especially concerning users with many referrals and many points from referrals. Learning from previous airdrops (e.g. see the comment by @romcsibacsi), we understand the utmost importance of anti-sybil measures to ensure that honest and active community members are rewarded and not some bot farms that will disappear the moment the airdrop is over. That’s why we will be implementing extensive anti-sybil measures before any payouts, scrutinizing accounts with many referral points and making sure all sybils are removed from the LSK drop. If someone referred 1000 fake accounts, they will not profit from it. Please understand that it is hard to enforce anti-sybil criteria on the go while airdrop is progressing, because malicious actors could learn how to overcome them and because modifying DB in production is always risky. That is why the leaderboards (and especially referral leaderboard) might not reflect the actual LSK payouts: some accounts could be removed later in our anti-sybil campaign.
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We are currently not considering capping referral points in Userdrop Season 1. Referrals are essential for us because they motivate users to spread the word about Lisk and expand Lisk community. From our perspective, a user should always have an incentive to invite their friend to join the Userdrop. A cap of e.g. 10 referrals or 5000 referral pts would stop active community members from spreading the word after they reach this limit.
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We are closely following the feedback on the Userdrop Season 1 and taking note of all successes and challenges to learn from it. Rest assured that Userdrop Season 2 rules will be designed based on the experience of Season 1, having actual data to back up the design decisions.
Generally I appreciate your input on the issue of the balance between referral / onchain activity points, this is not a simple matter. It is clear that ultimately we as a community need both, but I would argue we just don’t have good quality data to determine the “ideal proportion” between referral points and onchain points.
I am looking forward for your feedback and I hope that we can make Lisk Userdrop as stimulating for our community as possible.