Is a received rain a bonus?

[hecke]

Hello dear community and team,

I recently noticed that the rain we players receive (or can receive) from the rainbot is listed in our statistics as a "bonus." That makes perfect sense to me, since these amounts—distributed among 10 (random?) active chatters—come directly from Stake.com.

Now to my actual question:
Lately, there have also been larger rains in our chatroom, triggered by a player who either won big or simply enjoys giving money away. I tried to use my stats to find out whether these particular user-initiated rains also appear in my statistics as a "bonus." Unfortunately, due to the still limited ability to access reliable and especially live statistics, this has been hard to verify. However, I have reason to believe that these user-generated rains are also being added to my total bonus amount.

What I would really like to understand is how the classification works in both scenarios:

When a rain is triggered by the rainbot itself, and

When a rain is initiated by a user from their own balance.

If user rains are indeed being credited to my bonus balance, I don't see a logical explanation for that—since in this case, the money doesn't come from Stake, but from another player.

I would really appreciate a response to this, as I couldn't find any clear explanation in the forums or the Rain FAQ.

Best regards,

[KaiKai]

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