A better way would be to rank them and award the bonus. That is very difficult thing to do, since most of the top posters almost have no difference in their post quality.
Actually thats a great idea if you can do that as it would increase quality across the group but not bring down the quality of the very top posters too much. If people cant be separated by quality they could be reward equally more so. What about something like top 7:
1st = 0.08
2nd-3rd = 0.05
4th-7th = 0.03
edit: i see your problem though if you have 2-3 excellent posters, how do you decide. maybe go
1st - 3rd = 0.06
4th - 7th = 0.03
Another thing to address is, if you are the top poster, you wouldn't like this, would you?
This might soon get to 0.3 divided among whole posters based on their quality etc.
It might be good for those who don't get the bonus, and may be you will say it will be good.
But it has the following issues:
1. 0.3 divided among 40+ will make it insignificant amount for most of the participants.
2. It will fail to persuade those who are at the top.
3. Top 3 rewards are kept high so that it works as a reasonable incentive to the quality posters. It helps making healthy competition. The above way won't.
For instance, Quickseller made 199 posts, last week. 0.1 is the bonus he deserve. I don't think it is a good idea to lower it to 0.06.
1st to 3rd = 0.1 each is a good bonus IMO.
Any votes (for/against)?
Is quickseller the only one who has makes the bonus consistantly each week? if im quickseller i'd be snap voting against what i suggest haha
If you have different people who make 2nd and 3rd spot each week i think top 7 will work better for consistant overall group quality.
Either way im happy, thanks for your hard work!