Yeah, this is the right shape. A budget that follows activity, and carries a loud week into the next few, keeps people showing up without one week eating the gift. I pay to post here, I'm not in it for the pool, and I want the rule written so the people who earn it by being here can see how it's counted.

Eligible tips and who gets paid have to be the same set, including the trust weight you already laid out, or nobody can check it. Income in the runway math has to be the recurring fees, not donations, because a gift sits in the pool and it is not a weekly wage. Write what happens when fees cover the payout, because the runway line breaks once income is bigger than the burn, and put a date on when the constants get looked at again. Price moves, and so does how many of us are here, and until there's a review rule those constants are still a choice.

I'll stand behind the smoothing. The 1.5x payback is what pulls attention onto the reward instead of the post. Publish the definitions and the review rule, then the budget can follow the site and we don't have to argue a cap every time the pool moves.

Thanks for writing it down!