You're absolutely correct. We are roughly a 1K SBD of flags to pay out. Some extending to August of last year. I was talking to Marky about this and trying to figure out how we can address but it ultimately boils down to this.

Bot was designed to only distribute a daily pool equal to its vote value in SBD. The premise was that, if we did not, we would be DEEP into what I call upvote debt. I liken this to my hypothetically asking a friend for a load that I know my income will never be able to pay off (something like a billion dollars). It's more or less the same principle if we didn't cap the daily's.

I would imagine a scenario where we are "printing" tokens like crazy to the extent where the supply far exceeds what our bot will be able to handle. The end result would be people sitting on buttloads of tokens that they have to wait potentially years to use (may be a little hyperbolic).

Ultimately, the way I see of getting out of this quagmire is to develop a reasonable business model whereby folks are encouraged to delegate to help pay off the flag debt. That or limit the # of flags for those that do not delegate.

This notion was met with a bit of resistance in SFR but don't think it was from anybody that was delegating anything significant. I don't know. We may decide to put non-delegator flags into a separate queue that may be ages till payout so people will get the message that we need help with the incentives.

That may be drastic as we want to encourage the regular flaggers that are just dipping their toes in but if we get so many massive flags from non-delegators it really makes me question why they wouldn't support those that make it possible.

It's a bit frustrating to be honest but as a supporter it is not AT ALL your fault. Maybe it's time we reassess this issue. Take a delegator poll or something. Thanks for prompting me to go on this little rant. Hopefully others see it and understand the problem.