More badges, achievements, leaderboards, all builds gamification and I think most (all?) people enjoy it, when it’s working correctly, and helps generate traffic.

That being said the variability makes it questionable, and some projects still don’t seem to report correctly, like Rovr.

Need to look at improvements, such as:

1. Rolling averages over multiple reward periods. Geodnet rewards daily, so a rolling 7-day average can be good. Hivemapper rewards weekly, so a rolling 4-week average might be better. Other projects, like Rovr, randomize which day of the week you get your reward, which basically requires a rolling average over multiple weeks.

2. For overall project earnings or project ROI we need to use median instead of average, otherwise a few outlier miners are going to paint an unrealistic picture

Rollercoaster of emotions!