I bet if you look at the metrics my casting is WAY up since the $5 USDC cast rewards. It’s not the $5 but honestly I never considered myself a top caster. 

I just straight up had no way to know. I have a lot of followers but many people have twice as many. I post about esoteric sh*t like Public Goods and Grants Programs. Not popular topics at parties. I post to FC because I enjoy it.

The $5 reward was just some validation that the network appreciates my posting and then subconsciously I started posted both more and higher quality casts.

many such cases :)

I like the way that ted/nonliner described it in /manysuchcases - it's recognition and since it scales based on follower count, it can work as an activation point for new users.

When working in DAOs that first time they got token was the "aha!" moment.  All of a sudden they started to understand what was possible with decentralized coordination.  Moving that earlier helped them understand sooner and kept more people around.

I think the same can be said for FC cast rewards.

Startup artist seeking inspiration.  Champion of /bcard