[karpathy]

As one datapoint over last ~3 weeks or so I've accumulated 20ish BAT (~$5) from a combination of 1) ads shown to me, 2) tips from people to my twitter, 3) automatic monthly contributions from other users, presumably based on them spending time on the pages I've registered for rewards. In turn my auto-contribute settings (left at defaults) are to distribute up to 20BAT/month on sites I visit the most (e.g. DDG, HN, Github, Twitter, ...), which will happen automatically on Dec 15.

Agree with some of the other users that the tooling around the rewards is still a bit hard to navigate. There's the separate Uphold account, from which I seem to have to manually move BATs around to my browser wallet (?), I'm getting BATs from sources I don't fully understand, I don't think there is a page that just shows the timestamped deltas (debit/credit) etc.

[antpls]

Excuse my ignorance, but why are you rewarding Github and Twitter, which have enterprise/private business models not entirely based on ads ?

[karpathy]

I find the simple idea appealing that I don't have to spend too much energy on who to reward or not reward. I reward anything that I find valuable enough to spend my finite attention on. If companies started to receive sufficient profits from this stream they would feel less incentive to implement the other (often dirtier along multiple axes) monetization strategies. But I would be very curious to hear other people's "policies" on how they tune these allocations.