Bounty Hunter Report 5-15
Thank you to everyone trying out the bounties.
Bounties are a way to reward your readers to comment on your post, whether you are running a contest, want a question answered or are just want encourage more interaction. You can simply send any amount to @steem-bounty with a post url in the memo and after the payout of the post, the bounty will be distributed to everyone that put up a comment and received upvotes. Of course the amount of votes matters and the sender has 80% of the voting weight.
If you are new to the concept check out how bounties work here with this link . There are tutorials in various languages.
News about this report
We have launched a new version of steem-bounty. The data is stored in a new database that will allow us better to have the bounties shown via a web-ui. The existing bounties will still be paid out as before and all the new bounties will be picked up by the new functionality.
It has been over 7 days with the new version, so from now on we are only going to include bounties from the new version.
One of the things we have changed is the way we show results. We are now presenting all bounty information in one thread, in order to not spam the blockckchain and every comment and to allow a better overview. Do you like this new way better than the old one? Every person still gets their own transaction with their custom message, so overall no information should be lost. Here is an example:
fortunately we are getting close with the website. I think in 2-3 weeks it should be done and then finding bounties will be much more fun and easier. Here is a sneak peek..
We have a brand new telegram channel. If you have any question or need some help this will allow us to respond more quickly. You can join here: https://t.me/steembounty
We are currently trying to update this report every other day. Given that bounties run 7 days mostly this should be a good frequency and balance between spam and giving everyone a chance to participate in each bounty.
Minimum bounty size we will include in this report to 0.1 STEEM or SBD. There may be many bounties cheaper than this, however in the interest of spam avoidance we decided to exclude them from this list here.
New bounties come currently with a 1% fee. We do this to test if our fee system is working and may switch this on and off during the beta. We hope the 1% is small enough for no-one to care if it is on or off.
Over 500 bounties have been created. We are delighted that so many people have used it. In our next version we will be able to give more detailed stats as well.
Currently the below screenshot from the new UI shows you how many bounties are active and their value:
Check this report to find bounty-post
Since there is no easy way to search for bounty posts, we will create these lists of bounties on a regular basis, so make sure to follow the @steem-bounty account. When our website is ready this will much better.
Some posters use the "bounty" and "steem-bounty" tag, so you can look for those as well. If you create a post an plan to use a bounty, make sure to add a bounty tag and ideally announce in your post or via the headline that you are providing a bounty.
Remember in order to qualify for a bounty reward you must write a comment to the bounty post, which needs to be a top level comment (direct response to the post).
Newer Bounties 5-7 or later
Support our witness
Thank you very much for your attention and we hope you will vote for us as witness!
In order to do so you can go to:
https://steemit.com/~witnesses
And enter the "steem-bounty" account into the text field and click vote.
Or use steem-connect to vote directly for us as Steem witness!
I like the new way you show the results much better.
Thank you. Good.
Very good
Wow that's really good and nice bost it upvote comment how much i will paid for it??
its a very good bounty,,best profitble vote,,i love that
Congratulation steem-bounty! Your post has appeared on the hot page after 28min with 24 votes.
I am a fan of the @steem-bounty service, cheers guys!
Bounty amounts can be increased at any point by setting another award on the report, but, since HackerOne ensures that the hacker is paid quickly, bounties cannot be removed once awarded.
this is great !! check out our news - upvote 4 upvote
Looking forward to launch of your website. Love the simplicity of design. I think it will be a huge plus to steem-bounty tag.
Hi, I have a question on the community distribution of the votes per below. We all know there will be individuals that game the system and will abuse this portion with using bidbots or curation trails on their own comments. These “votes” are not truly organic and can be considered cheating if they comment on a post with a bounty. I realize 20% is a small share of the reward but is there any way to make it a fair playing field? I’ve seen many commenters use these methods to profit off a post with a bounty set.
I would like to try out a bounty but hate to be rewarding these individuals profiting off others good intentions. If I set a bounty, I would like all rewards to go to organic community votes.
This is something we will address more in future version. For now let us know if u see a problem. The best place is the telegram channel as we will be able to react quickly.
Most scammers have little SP so we should be able to downvote them quite easily.
In the future we are thinking about:
For now let us know and we will manage via downvotes
Thanks for the reply @btc-dialog. Just my thought but I think many would prefer a blacklist instead of having to flag a user. I think the individuals that use this service want to show support to their commenters and I doubt any would want to downvote someone that stops by their post.
I'll try a small amount to see how it works. I bidbot all the comments on my post to make it an even playing field for the commenters. Had to learn how to do that one, lol. I accidentally upvoted my post initially. Thanks :)