All, 100%. The rough criteria to receive them? Consistently posting good content/posts/comments as judged by other trusted users. We use a Web of Trust algo to determine user trust.
It's trickier than that. How do we determine the top 5 stackers without establishing trust first? We'd have to "trust" that they're the top 5, but we can't.
Everyone trusts themselves, they are a singularity of trust to themselves, so that seems like a more natural seed.
Listened to this nice Investor's Podcast Network episode with famous investor Bill Miller- states majority of his wealth is concentrated in Amazon and Bitcoin:
But is content on site growing too? Is there a way to measure that?
And if users/content are not growing in tandem it might be worth trying out a first separate sub imo. I know Keyan wanted to wait at least a year - but maybe that's actually a bottleneck.