Thank you for responding. I can see that most people just do not know what is going to happen. Those who do (on the team that you mentioned) are not being forthright, which is unfortunate.

I think that honesty and sharing what they know so that everyone knows where we stand would be much more productive. They might think that if they have to tell us that some rewards will be lost that they will then have to deal with people throwing temper tantrums. I think they underestimate us.

The few who would throw a tantrum would be easily put in their place by people like me who I believe are in the majority. I think that the results of your experiment once people understood it has proven that most of us care more about the overall growth of the platform then the immediate gratification.

I would be glad to help in any way. If you learn anything more that I can share, please let me know.