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51 sats \ 11 replies \ @Undisciplined 3 Mar 2024 \ on: Let's talk bounties: what's an appropriate amount? meta
I thought you're 2500 bounty was about the right size for what you asked. If I had stronger opinions about that topic, I would have taken the time to write them out for you. Of course, I would also have done that without a bounty.
If anything, the bounty slightly discouraged me from responding, because I felt like I should take some time to think through my answer and ended up forgetting about it entirely.
Hm... Okay.
Well, that's what the bounty's for: encouraging people to submit well thought-out and qualitative comments, no?
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I agree. You may not have wanted my half-baked off-the-cuff thoughts and the bounty protected you from them.
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It's not meant like that, anyone can join-in on the topic and is welcome to do so, but people who do put more effort towards their comments, could be rewarded extra for doing so.
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I'm not taking it personally. I meant that sincerely. I just thought it was interesting that the bounty made me more reluctant to comment.
By stating a price, you communicated something about the value of responses you were looking for and I decided not to waste your time with a low effort response. I also apparently decided the bounty wasn't worth crafting a more thoughtful response. If it had been 10k, I'm sure I would have.
Did you feel like you got valuable responses at 2500? If so, I'd say it was well-priced.
I'm curious how this goes for you. I haven't used bounties very often.
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There are some interesting comments, but nothing I'd recon to be worth 2500 sats, yet.
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Ok, well I certainly can't guarantee that I would have come up with a valuable response, but I would have put some thought into it for a larger bounty.
There's something called "moral crowding out" in economics. It's about how sometimes putting a price on things that are normally regulated by social norms can actually reduce the behavior you want to incentivize.