Quote from: AsiaNexgen on July 18, 2017, 01:33:34 AM

Quote from: needmoney on July 17, 2017, 12:43:57 PM

Quote from: AsiaNexgen on July 17, 2017, 02:38:05 AM

Quote from: needmoney on July 15, 2017, 09:01:32 AM

Why have you reduced total tokens allocated to blog bounties silently? It was 40k now its 15k? Not like you are giving any good bounty at all.

Hi needmoney,

Regarding the blog campaign, I admit that the planning could have been better. There were many things that I did not anticipate, for example;

- the number of participants
- the expected time I wanted to have this bounty open for would not work
- the amount of people just creating empty blogspot pages with 0 traffic only for the bounty
- many people just copy the ANN or whitepaper, and just add 1 barely original sentence to circumvent my rules
- people posting translations of the ANN in many different languages, hoping that I won't be able to tell what is going on (its so obvious)
- misinformation (eg: someone wrote that the OAX token gives out dividends)

I hope people can understand that the bounty programs are a 2 way street. I can reward OAX, but I also require articles with thought, and original input. With the previous staking system, I had a lot of difficulty giving out justifiable rewards for those who contribute quality articles. Thus, I needed to modify the blog bounty structure. The system I have is still under review, I will replace the spreadsheet link once I have the stakes set.

I hope people can understand my decisions. It may seem like a harsh deduction, however, the modified stake system makes up for it. I care for the community, and wish to reward those who are part of it.

As always, I am happy to help out, and answer any questions. You can also reach out to me on slack or telegram.

- tlynch

I support your decision. Thats very good to hear. There is however, a better system for this. Just like irfan_pak does, you can basically reject every single low effort article, giving them no bounties at all. But that doesn't change the fact that you offered 40,000 OAX (which is way lower in total supply regarding other campaigns) and those who have a quality article should have a right to share that allocated amount you promised on the beginning.

In other words, I support your decision to eliminate copy&pastes and etc., but you shouldn't have changed the reward amount as it is not fair for those who actually wrote a quality article and put effort into them.

Think about it, lets say there are 40 quality articles worth recieving a bounty. Before the reduction they would recieve 1000 OAX each. Now they will recieve 15 000/40 rewards. This reduction basically is not fair. Wink

I understand your concern. For me to be able to give out the full 40,000 OAX, I would need to extend the blog bounty for a long time. Perhaps another 2 - 3 months. I think its more efficient to just cut the bounty short and recycle the OAX into a new campaign (with better rules) ...which I will announce soon Grin

But thats the problem, you haven't said this before the bounty campaign. If that was your intention (to have the blog bounty up at least months) you should have said that before you started your campaign. People assumed, like other bounties, that they will share the allocated 40,000 OAX based on their stakes. Now, basically, those who have written quality articles, put time and effort to their work will recieve possibly 2.5x less for what they were expecting or promised.

I am advocating this even though I don't have a article submitted purely because campaigns started to make it a regular thing to change the allocated amount which is not honest and professional. If you must, eliminate %90 of the articles.