So is it really giving encouragement or false hope? Also when others see one minnow getting say $50 for 1500 and various pics and links etc. that clearly took a long time, then another getting over $300 for mainly pics, they'll copy that and before you no it, you have a bunch of terrible introduce me posts.
We've seen it happen before. However I do get your point, that we want to encourage new users.
Cg
This was an extreme case and possibly a one-off. We need to find the right balance to make the newbies start.
Remember when people like dollarvigilante were getting $15k on a their first post?