Hi again, everyone. I want to share a few updates regarding your Community Points Donuts.

Introducing Badges!

Badges are simply a new way for you to use your Donuts. They look like this:

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You can select them in the sidebar on the desktop redesign:

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1. Click on “Add Badge & Flair” in the sidebar
2. When you open the gallery it displays all of the available badges
3. Select which badge you want from "My Badges"
4. After obtaining the badge, it displays next to your username in the feed and on comments pages

The community can create badges and decide how many Donuts are required to obtain them.

When you vote on a poll, it unlocks the "I Voted!" badge, the mods have access to Buidl, and (at this time) there is one badge to use your points on: a Whale badge. If you have ideas for badges, let us/the mods know by creating a poll. We'll be adding a bunch of other badges as soon as possible. They are just another fun thing you can do with Donuts.

Distribution

Later today, we will do the first distribution since the initial airdrop. The Donuts you receive today are based on contributions from October 1-7th, 2018 and can be found in the CSV linked in this post. A few things to note:

• There was one poll to change distribution but it did not reach a decision threshold (15M on a single option).
• Which leads me to my next point…

We’re changing the “Decision Threshold” to be dynamic

Currently, the Decision Threshold on governance polls is too high as we have yet to see a poll reach it. Therefore, we are changing the decision threshold to be dynamic. Instead of 15M Donuts on a single option, which is what it was previously, it will now change every two weeks based on participation. Think of this similar to how the difficulty adjustment algorithm works in Ethereum. This change ties decision making to fluctuations in participation and makes reaching it more attainable.

• The Decision Threshold is 6.44M Donuts.
• It will change every other Monday and be updated in the sidebar later today.

It is equivalent to the amount of points allocated to the 2nd highest option on any poll in the previous two weeks. This will account for fluctuations in subreddit activity, since sometimes, life and bear markets force some of us to do other things with our time. We chose the second option because in the event one poll is abnormally successful, it doesn’t prohibit another poll the following week from reaching the Decision Threshold.

For the purposes of this experiment, we will likely modify the Decision Threshold again in the future.