A program that grants points for using Bing search, which users can redeem for gift cards, sweepstakes entries, or charitable donations.
The fallacy in Microdot Rewards assumptions is that fairly fast consumption of news means nefarious activity.
Most people now scan articles, including news, vs. reading it. In fact, choosing a headline in the Bing news area displays what amounts to a brief elaboration of the info. If that's all you need, you move on to another news link.
If you want more than the brief blurb, then you open the full article.
But choosing just the blurb level too quickly gets detected as "gaming the system." While that's certainly a possibility, it's also a valid consumption of news.
Microsoft can adjust the rewards to specify 5 points for reading an article and only 3 points for reading the blurb level.
It seems to me that they are creating the problem by doing the opposite.
Users should not have to space out their news consumption. That's just an irritant when you want to check and read news.