I don't understand why any payment is held until a certain level is reached.
If someone only wants to do one task to try it out why shouldn't they be paid for it?
That's how it was originally, and I wish it could still be that way.
But, there was discussion in some places about repeating training tasks under different accounts, and then evidence of people doing automated/careless work for one address until disqualified, then repeating the process in new accounts.
(There was also talk of sharing answers to training/test tasks. While that could be an innocent attempt to more quickly learn the right standards to apply, such 'crib lists' also serve to help weaker or bad-faith workers masquerade as good workers for longer before being disqualified. That's why it's important, even with sometimes-flawed training tasks, that each worker complete tasks on their own using only the guidelines in the official interface.)
Registration and the minimum threshold are a couple of measures to make the fake-work-then-repeat-cycle less profitable. They're not perfect and will no doubt require continued adjustment over time, in order to make sure the bulk of the payments go to workers doing quality work. Unfortunately these measures also slow the flow of payments to new good-faith CoinWorkers. But, as your history of work grows, you'll be free from any delays/restrictions on new and unproven accounts.
{Warge
