Don't you think forcing researchers to improve their Issues Ratio within 120 days could actually encourage rushed submissions, potentially increasing the very false positives you're trying to eliminate? How exactly does putting researchers under that pressure protect your clients on Audit Engine? You mentioned researchers who don't meet the threshold as if they're automatically a burden. Let's say a researcher submitted 1 valid, unique vulnerability and 5 invalid findings. Does that make their valid discovery worthless? Does that researcher suddenly contribute nothing to security simply because their Issues Ratio falls below your threshold, even though they discovered a unique vulnerability? Nobody is arguing that false positives should be rewarded or that researchers who consistently spam invalid submissions should face no consequences. That's an entirely different discussion. The issue is that Sherlock is deprecating its contest platform while giving researchers only 120 days to unlock previously accumulated rewards through a system they aren't even guaranteed access to. You established those rules, allowed researchers to accumulate rewards under them, and now you're introducing an expiration date while removing the very contest model through which researchers could improve their ratio. And regarding your statement that "unearned money that can be unlocked by improving the Issues Ratio is not an SR's money," your own team previously stated: "The payments will never be ours and it will be waiting for you to pass the threshold. You can do so by competing in Audit Engine engagements (they will affect the Sherlock contest thresholds as well soon)." So which is it? Your team explicitly communicated that those payments would never belong to Sherlock and would remain available for researchers to unlock by improving their ratio. Now you're introducing a deadline while not even guaranteeing those researchers access to the engagements required to meet that condition. You can protect your clients from false positives without retroactively closing the door on researchers who were operating under your own established rules. Nobody is asking Sherlock to reward spam. We're asking Sherlock to honor the system it created instead of CHANGING the exit conditions when shutting it down.