The winner is chosen at random by an automated script so there will be stupid posts. I don't know if there is any good way around it unforunately. Moderating the posts seems to go against the core ideal of the app. I think "stupid" can be subjective and leaving the app truly random allows us to hear people we never would have heard, even if they don't have something profound to say. I think there can be some value in that.
Categories!!! When this app gets huge, you're gonna have a lot of people thinking.. oh boy, what are the odds of my message winning, that'd be great! Well, what happens when you've got 1m+ users all of a sudden is just like the actual lottery, which most intelligent people won't play because it's a scam and you'll statistically never win. So why bother posting, even if I don't have to pay for it, it's a waste of my time and I will likely have no connection to the post or the poster who wins. But what if you could break it down, a dozen winners a day (still, out of a countless # of users!) in Music, Art, Fashion, Politics or Relationships, Sex, Confessions, Crush shout-outs, College etc. Not only will you be able to tailor your userbase by targeting exactly who you want with the categories you provide, you will increase user relatability to your app because they may find a category that matters to them. and they'll stay, and they'll post, and they'll challenge their friends to see if they'll win, and what song they'll post in the Music category– who does the winner shout out in their post?? Moreover, you've got a reason to get people checking back on the app throughout the day, to see who won in each category, instead of just looking it up in the morning and sayin "ah, ok, got it" and never opening it again. And you don't have to devalue the gratification of a winning post by having multiple winners a day in just one cesspool of who-knows-what. Not a perfect system but I think it'd be a great feature. Hope this gets big!
Categories is a suggestion I have gotten from several users. It is a great idea and I will definitely work in implementing it soon. One idea you raised that I hadn't considered is staggering the different wins throughout the day to keep people coming back to the app. That's brilliant. I could keep the notification for the grand lottery and have optional notifications for the categories, so that people don't get notification fatigue. Thanks for this input! I'll add your name to the About page as a thank you! Just let me know if you don't want it there and I'll remove it.