The top 10% of active users were actually prevented from getting moderation points at all, which helped prevent those users dominating the site. If you browsed

The top 10% of active users were actually prevented from getting moderation points at all, which helped prevent those users dominating the site. If you browsed /. a couple of times a week and read a few articles each time you'd likely get mod points each week, whereas I never once got them in a decade of reading the site because I was on there all the time.