You're welcome. I can definitely relate with being a newcomer and stuff. The community here is really kind and helpful. Often times they're just too busy dealing with personal issues, struggles, and etc.
But sometimes you get lucky and find that someone might help with your concerns. I'd like to leave an example so that others may follow. If we want others to help us with stuff that's important to us, then we ought to, at the very least, do the same to them from time to time.
Yes, it's true. Mr. Michael Son got lots of emails in the past. Probably too many to handle at a short time's notice. That's why it was changed to manual activation with 250 minimum subscribers.
It's actually permanent. Once tipping is activated, it'll stay that way.
The link is for you learn more about the latest tipping event. The email request usually only occurs during special events like this one. So if you want tipping activated ASAP, kindly send an email request. It takes months before another event like this happens.