Yes this is stealing. Not everyone has time to sit around playing games all day. Some people like myself just love collectingthe cards and the art and the coins. I bought LAND and stuff but I suck at the game and just do not have the time to put into it all the time but I enjoy being able to come on once in a while to play and collect my coins and you know what I do with this coins. I PUT THEM RIGHT BACK INTO THE POOLS OR STAKING. I am in this for a long long time and when I bought my land I was promised 12,000 plus SPS tokens. While that isnt that much to some it is a lot to me and I paid with a promise of that amount. I find A LOT of these games backtrack a lot and find a way to take away from those who cant stick around 24/7. I wish a company like Disney would just buy those game and make sure it is run fair and use grandfather clauses meaning if you change the rules then you have to grandfather in those who were here before the rule change or at least give them a clear view of their options. Dogechain did this shit too. I was in hospital for 10 days and missed my third of 6 month claims and I was ok with losing the 1 but nope. I missed one so I forfeit them all. SCAM CITY is all I have to say.But what do I know. This isnt my game. All I know is the more web3 creators want to do shady stuff likes stealing the rewards from users the more I feel like web3 is no different than corporate America or wherever. I cannot WAIT to see all those griftubers griftagrams grifters get arrested and put in one of those 6 billion dollar prisons. I mean they are literally allowing people to steal from stores. Id bet my left N that they are testing out tracking items outside of the store like they did in South Africa. Ok enough of my long winded rant. Just remember. Not everyone investing in your game does it for the gaming. Some of us just look at it like collecting things. Like isntead of collecting figures IRL Im collecting figures in your game. Land. Coins Ive bought and staked and all that. I just suck bad at the game and my computer is kinda laggy bc my CPU was from 2012 so yeah OLD. It runs but I sometimes wait 2 min or so for things to load up. Sad in a modern city that had fiber before a lot of other states did. Please do not make players who are not able to play daily suffer. At least give people a couple months or so to realize they need to claim them or something. ANywho I didnt get anywhere NEAR my 12k I was promised when I bought the land. Im disappointed but not surprised. I kinda slowed down collecting when things got shady but I still do once in a while

Now that Im looking again I believe I only received a little over 1000 from that 12,252 or whatever it was. 

If I had it wrong on what I was supposed to get then I guess that is on me for not fully understanding it. I just always loved collecting card games that Ill never get to play bc I just loved the art on them which is the case with your game. And if you dont want just collectors who may one day be a more active player then I understand. I do think Standing Stone Games paid a hacker to steal account information. I hope if another country attacks us its in the same area as the standing stone HQ in MA. Those people do not deserve LOTRO and DnD

no brainer, YES

Why not distribute it amongst the current players in proportion to their staked SPS? This seems like it would do more good for community moral and incentivize people to stake their SPS over the next two months than just to arbitrarily decide it should go to the DAO. 

At the very least, it should be burned. That would also help community moral (as their SPS is worth a bit more in that scenario).

Do you happen to know if these apparently dead accounts also have land?

has nothing to do with the proposal. I was just so interested ^^

Why?

Auto-claim and send it to said accounts that have it unclaimed. Anything else is theft or at the very least an overstep of authority without attempting to properly inform those who are missing their airdrops, plain and simple. 

do not forget about some kind of "campaign" to let everyone - unable to fulfill their obligation - know about "their" free stuff getting invalidated by the decision of the DAO :)

Lets assume this proposal passes and people are given a chance to claim any missed air drop from the links provided by Splinterlands. Lets assume the remaining unclaimed SPS goes to the Dao. Whats our next step??
I think at that point we can vote on a proposal to do one of two things.
1. Burn the SPS
2. Distribute the SPS based on staked SPS

I do feel that the DAO should not keep the SPS.

@investygator 

I agree with all those saying to burn the SPS. At some point I would agree that unclaimed anything needs to go away, a year seems like plenty of time, but transferring those assets to the DAO is wrong. 

Would prefer if it was burned instead of going to the DAO!

I would like to see more nuance *in* the proposal. 

If the player account has had zero activity for that period of a year, then sure, that claim should probably be forfeited but only if that account also has ZERO SPS staked or liquid on their in game account. 

This would mean that they have never interacted with the SPS governance system and are likely not to be interested, therefore, sure. 

If they have made a claim in the past, I would be not keen to disallow this accounts from making future claims. 

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