Why so complicated. Why did byteball make byteball whales out of bitcoin whales? What purpose did that serve. Someone with 150 btc doesn't need a mass of byteballs. Why not give every member of bitcointalk 100 or 1000 byteballs regardless of their btc balance or rank. Then you will get equal distribution without a mass of confusion.
Because people with some wealth likely know how to manage it and are more valuable in terms of participation in a project. They're more likely to interact and engage in it on many levels. If you just hand out tons to a bunch of poor noobs all they're likely to do is sell it for pennies and move on.
Distributing coins simply by giving away to every single member of bitcointalk can't really be said as equal distribution.
That would just feed account farmers who will then dump sell the coins for quick cash.
But if the wealthy holds them, it
might raise the value and socialize the use of the coins