However as the interest of Bitcoin exploded in 2017 so did the faucet abusers and these days 3500 is a lot of money to give away risk free for someone who can easily 10x and withdraw and do it over and over again.
And that is why there is a minimum "tip" amount too, people claiming the faucet, betting and winning once, and sending the btc to another clon account to cashout.
Not only that. You can't tip at all if you haven't made a deposit recently. I don't know for how long you are eligible to tip from your last deposit but I tried to tip someone some time ago and I got something like "You can't tip without deposit" and my last depo was made in December 2015 according to my Transactions' info on PD. I thought I was making depos after that, but apparently I wasn't.
They had a min tip back in 2015. I can't remember what it was but it was something like 50000 Sats or so.
However you could make a brand new account, no deposits, get a 1000 sat faucet and once you hit 50000 sat you could tip another alt user account.
Whenever someone tips someone it appears in the public chat.
Usually we would see something like
Joe1 tipped Joe 50000 Sats
Joe2 tipped Joe 50000 Sats
Joe3 tipped Joe 50000 Sats
Basically that is clearly someone account farming and faucet abusing. There were even mods in the channel that show that and they didn't care. I even asked why it's allows and was given an answer along the lines of "It's against the terms but at the moment we don't enforce it".
Now a lot has changed provably because the abuse multiplies exponentially and PD had no choice.
That's right, the minimum tip was 50k sats back then, but of course it was much less in USD than it is now. In fact it was 36 times less, so to keep the minimum tip on the the same level it should be 0.000015 BTC. I propose to the PD team to consider implementing 0.000015 BTC as a minimum tip, instead of today's 0.00011 because sometimes you just want to say hi by tipping a friend in the chat and 0.00011 is a bit too much for that.
Also I think that together we can find a way how to fight the faucet farmers without raising the minimum tip amount.