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## Testing different approaches
When considering what approach to take to awarding abilities, or what specific values to use for the thresholds, it might be worth drafting database queries for each approach being considered, and a few different threshold values for each approach.

We can then take advantage of the fact that there is a body of data built up already. Even though much of this data is confidential, someone already trusted with database access could run the various queries and share the overall totals without divulging anything private. For example: "With approach A people would have taken on average 5 months and 76 events to gain this ability, whereas with approach B people would have taken on average 4 months and 62 events to gain this ability".

Trying this out for a few different size communities which have had different traffic levels over time could give an idea of what settings it is useful to have, and what defaults to start them out at. Since these totals don't need to be private, results from each approach could be posted in separate answers for discussion and voting. If the database queries are staggered over time to avoid too much load on the server, these results could even be in the form of charts that show how the outcomes vary as each threshold is varied.