Description
To be featured through this account, users will need to donate 20 points or more. Donations of 19 points or fewer will be stored and combined with subsequent donations. A feature will only start once a total of 20 points or more have been received.
Details
Donations of fewer than 20 points will be stored for up to 1 week. If the cumulative number of points donated during this period does not reach the minimum number of points needed to initiate a feature, the points will be refunded. At any time users may request a refund of the points they have donated by commenting on my page with the word "refund"
Rationale
Over 60% of the processing time is used to handle requests that represent less than 10% of the total points transferred through this account. Small donations require a significant amount of paperwork to process and are no longer worth the effort required
Complaints have been raised that featured users do not give out enough points. This is because the featured users are listed for longer than they should be (between updates), resulting in erroneous watchers, favs and llama badges being given without pay before the users can be de-listed.
Impact
Users should no longer see featured users that are so near their feature expiration. Users will continue to expire their features and for a short period not give out points, but the number of users in this state should be far fewer than in the past.
More information can be found [here]
The minimum donation rate change notification issued on December 28th, 2012 and enacted on February 10th, 2013 can be found [here]
