This only makes sense if you'd like to attract silly speculators and mathematical cripples to the community. Let them migrate to NXT and Dogecoin. Those folks make no contribution whatever.
While I see your point and understand where you're coming from, I can't agree with you one bit.
The fact they are buying coins is a very strong contribution to the development efforts. A lost opportunity for Mastercoin. Doge Coin will soon surpass MSC market cap. What a joke that will be.
You guys need to get a good marketing guy on board. Marketing efforts have been very poor so far. Thank god for Ron's presentations otherwise very few would have heard about Mastercoin.