User blog comment:Paula1978/Tipping and Favorite Village Arrangements/@comment-5042346-20120603055049

I suspect that keeping the server traffic under control was part of TinyCo's reasons to limit the tipping. As for the effect on the players starting to behave anti-social by not tipping other players in return, forcing their friend list to become less visited, this is mere consequence. In short I dislike it very much that tipping has become limited and it makes the Tiny Social function less attractive.

There are solutions, like allowing to tip 5 additional persons for every social level you gain. Or even commercially, allowing to tip unlimited for say 1 per day.