Answer me one question: "You go to the store to buy ice cream, you choose the ice cream you like, take it and go to the cashier.The seller says that you need to pay 2 dollars, but you say that I only have 1 dollar and ask for sell 50 percent of the ice cream.The seller refuses to sell you ice cream. " Tell me, the seller is not right?
You nailed it, my friend! I think it is just rational that we have to follow the minimal rules so that we can be rewarded. This is a give-and-take situation and we can't get what we want if we are not doing the things we should do. Though I understand that maybe OP is trying to say that it can be good if maybe points can also be given to someone who failed to finish what should be done...I am talking of the 10 or 15 posts required but then all of these things can be at the discretion of the project manager and there is nothing we can do on that. This is a take-it-or-leave-it kind of a situation. We have to follow the rules as nobody is exempted anyway.