I do like the idea of enriching rewards with ideas or plots that might get players interested enough to follow up, but not the “now you’re forced into a quest/situation, enjoy!” part.

it’s pretty clear reading this thread that different folk have different ideas about what or how downvotes should be used. what is intented behavior for one is wrong for another. i doubt that even clearly defined rules would change that as they woud be essentually the same thing - someone’s opinion on how it should work. plus different instances have different rules.