You could spot faucet cheats like me and @Josh by collecting IP hash (not IP) and counting visits.
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Not sure I understand the point of limiting it? To allow more funds to be available in the faucet for giving away to testers without maid?
A little tongue-in-cheek here but why risk doing it for the first time on the live net? Why not test it out before? Would be good at some point for us all to list the risks of conversion and decide the best way to minimize those risks. I feel like the current idea is very low risk, but there may be other factors that aren’t apparent so I really appreciate the discussions that are happening 
There are degrees of security though. I feel the current idea has very good security across the whole spectrum of users. It would be helpful to identify the specific risks that are concerning (to you; other people will be concerned by different risks depending on their situation and knowledge etc).
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I assume that testing and refining the distribution process is primary.
I think that we are also using this to improve testing of the network by bringing testnets closer to reality.
So I think we have two lines of enquiry and that’s confusing things. I’m guessing that the question from @neo about limiting distribution is about the second issue.
My question about suggested number of coins to have at a test address was related to that too: what’s a useful amount to make the tests realistic economically? Min, max etc so people can participate in tests that both become more realistic models of launch and post launch, and to test the distribution mechanism.
Participants need to balance the value of their participating with risks from potentially exposing private/secret keys so some guidance on number of tokens to use would be helpful.
Maybe it’s more realistic for people to use amounts they expect to use for storage, but without guidance as to cost that’s hard to judge.
Does the current idea, include the scenario of typing in the keys?
Basically the reasoning is that if 100 test-SNT is a lot too much at a time and a few test-SNT (<= 1) is best then why have the situation where OMNI-MAID holders get potentially 1000’s or 10,000’s or more of test-SNT.
The reasoning behind the issue is the comments by a few (devs?) that the testnets suffer because of the overabundance of test-SNT and the testnets being hammered too much too fast and not a good indication of real world testing.
For what its worth Rob, I initially thought that what you are talking about, SNT allocation is a percentage of MAID was the idea.
Made sense to a degree but I realized shortly after that is not the plan.
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Would people say that ‘converting’ eMAID to SNT will likely require a transaction on ethereum? the reason I ask is that some people would like me to help them acquire eMAID or MAID, but only about 20-50 pounds or dollars worth. These small amounts are greatly affected by things like transaction fees.
I hope this is an acceptable place to ask.
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What about a fund? If several of your friends / family want to buy they can do it on one address (although might complicate KYC and safe keeping.
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