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Agreed, It is a strange way for the system to work. I have been on the platform as a viewer for at least six years and I haven't ever heard about this system before. Judging by the people in chat, and that it took a week to learn about this, it seems people don't know this exists and at a minimum don't understand how it works very well either. I am currently unable to donate personally but will be able to do so in the near future.
As things stand I don't know if I feel comfortable donating because this system is confusing and pretty punishing if you get it wrong. If a hype train with the emote you want comes along and you donate, do you get the highest emote on the train or at the time you donate? Either has problems, if you get the highest emote on the train but you cared about the lower level emotes you feel cheated but if it is the time you donate it incentivizes people to wait to donate which increases the chance that the train will stop prematurely.
Personally, I really like PogChomp and BleedPurpleHD but don't care for KappaInfinite. If I had donated and received KappaInfinite but not the emotes I actually like, I would be pretty upset. For me, the prestige of the KappaInfinite would not really make up for this. Any time I would use it, the memory would be tied to the strong disappointment I felt and this bundled with my dislike for the aesthetic of KappaInfinite would make me not want to be involved in hype trains in the future.
In order to demonstrate my point I'll share what was happening prior to this post's creation. When this was brought to the attention of PirateSoftware by a chatter, many people in chat were considering boycotting hype trains. Fortunately, Thor is level headed and understanding so this post was made instead. Many other people would start boycotting but you were fortunate this time around. This either needs to be made to align with viewer expectations or publicly stated as the status quo and further explained.
As an aside, consider having these save the formatting we put in. I submitted this with indents of 5 spaces but then that information is deleted. Pressing tab, unlike in many editors, doesn't give an indent either. I understand that making some precautions like this are used to stop unnecessary spam or to stop blank messages or horribly formatted ones but it makes comments much harder to read especially for any dyslexics. Perhaps there is a skill issue here with a shortcut I am unaware of, if so, I'm sorry for my mistake.