Using the magic word method with the forum post count barrier (100 posts) ~330 forum members could participate as of now.
The only preoblem is, users could entry without even listening to the hangout if the magic word is spread around.
That's my concern. With the actual price of bts and brownies, your attendance at the hangout represents several $. This will attract people with bad intentions if you can receive money with just entering a magic word somewhere.
We risk to have people creating forum accounts with more than 100 posts, spamming "
", "great", " indeed", ... It can be done within a few hours. Then, obtain the magic word in some way (easy).
If it's just one person it doesn't matter but if we start having a team of 50, 100, 200 guys doing it ...
The result would be very bad for the forum with all these empty comments everywhere. The attendance of the hangouts wouldn't be representative of the members interest.
Finall and maybe the more important. We are very happy with our happy brownies because they are like a cordial thank you from BM and because they already have some
value.
They are worth several bts and are a potential target for sharedroping. If we start having persons receiving brownies they don't deserve, the value of the "deserved"/received brownies will go down because the total supply will increase (without any contribution done for BitShares).
It would mean less shares dropped when someone sharedrop and brownies with less value.
It would be sad, brownies points are an excellent idea.
This has to be thought carefully