Volunteer recognition
Fragment of a discussion from Talk:Task force/Community Health
I think we can recognize a lot of people, but higher accolades are obviously going to go to fewer people. If we're worried about repeat rewards, we have a separate category to reward emerging editors who haven't been rewarded before. Rather than throwing 1000 people into a lottery, we should recognize all of them, with 10% of them getting special recognition along some criteria.
I'm with Bodnotbod that a lottery would devalue the recognition and not really make people feel good about their contributions, nor would it motivate people to work harder. Being passed up because of a dice roll is more frustrating than being passed up because someone else did X more than you did.