That could be very true.

It was only recently that they enabled any tokens to be withdrawn since they were working through some people using multiple accounts and fraudulent behavior.

I agree I am not that concerned about it and, on one level, it does make sense. They want to give people the incentive to use the interface to help build the machine learning algorithm.

Handing someone $2,50 worth of tokens just for signing up means that many would sign up, take the money, and never do any searches.

So I can see both sides.