I've got a small query to you Foxpup or to anyone who is able to help me out: How does such a high level of privacy-o-meter score is achieved in every transaction made by Foxpup?
As far as I can tell, a transaction having several recipients is all it takes. I usually get a score of 0 when sending to only a single recipient. As LoyceV notes, the Privacy-o-meter is pretty much worthless and shouldn't be taken seriously.
For whatever reason I presumed they were wearing it because they were not participating in a paid campaign and had nothing else to display therefore did for the sake of displaying something-other-than-nothing. I had no idea they were all getting paid 0.015 BTC a week each.
They aren't. Some are getting paid different amounts, according to a combination of objective criteria (mostly activity and rank) and my admittedly arbitrary whims.
I am somewhat confused as to why Foxpup or any other member would pay that sort of money in BTC for an avatar that brings no real benefit to the payer including no monetary.
No benefit? What about the fame? And the fun? And the attention of attractive people of various genders? (Yes, there's also the attention I get from
unattractive people of mostly one gender in particular, but that's significantly less beneficial, at least to me.)