# Status Meritocracy The Status Meritocracy allows `Contributors` to show their appreciation of other `Contributors` efforts in Status. ### Summary The Status Meritocracy is a SNT Reward System that allows a `Contributor` in the registry to award allocated SNT, along with praise, to other `Contributors`. The DApp will also display a leaderboard of `Contributors` who have been awarded the most and have participated the most in the Meritocracy, along with their praise ### Goals - Allow `Contributors` to build social capital, ideally in the form of Merit (degrades to popularity?) - Reward `Contributors` for impressing `Contributors` ### Roles #### Contributor Abilities: - can send SNT to the Meritocracy contract, which is allocated evenly over `Contributors` - can `award` allocated SNT to `Contributors` - can withdraw SNT awarded to them, only when they have awarded all their allocatable SNT (or it has been forfeited by `Admins`) #### Admin Abilities: - add/remove `Contributors` - set upper limit of `Contributor` `registry` - forfeit all `Contributors` allocatable SNT (but not awarded), can only be called once a week. #### Owner Abilities: - is Admin - can add/remove `Admins`, - can changeOwner - can change ERC20Token contract address - can recover funds