Semux's new signature award doesn't look fair. The merit with a high level account is quite natural, so the number of recipients will be several times that of member.
After collecting feedback from the community, we applied a minor change to the reward distribution formula:
stake = min(merit_points + 50, 500)
reward = stake / total_stake * 20000 SEM
It shouldn't be so much focus on the merit points, because it's damn difficult to get them.
99% of the users at BCT don't give out merits at all...
The merits are used to not only for point system but also to filter dummy accounts and avoid spam.