Hive Project Bounty Distribution Completed
We’re happy to say that the distribution of Hive Project bounties has been completed a few days ago. Still, we have lately been dealing with a lot of individual requests regarding looking into a specific bounty payment.
We want to stress that all the bounties, to eligible bounty participants, have been payed out for activities connected to Hive Project ICO.
To clear this situation we have compiled a list of several reasons why some of the bounties, you’ve inquired about, haven’t been payed out. We will list them in descending order by occurrence.
Not following the eligibility criteria for individual bounty
Some followers failed to check the eligibility criteria for participation in Hive Project ICO bounties. Either the content was in the wrong language, the account didn’t have enough reach in terms of readers/followers or they have misunderstood the required task (example: clapping to Medium posts, which was not a behaviour that would be awarded with a bounty stake).
Spam & non-relevant content
We have seen a number of accounts try to tag Hive Project in irrelevant or spammy social media posts. Those bounty participants were deemed ineligible to receive the bounty, since we wanted to reward only SERIOUS supporters.
Non-human audiences
As described in our ICO bounties blog post, we have asked all bounty participants to have their social media feeds audited, having a minimal score of 80% of real users following a specific Twitter account. Some bounty participants failed to clear that benchmark. Lowest score of one of the participants was 22%, so understandably, we can not reward such efforts with a bounty.
Bounty participant had registered with multiple accounts
We have disregarded any bounty participant, who has tried to game the system by applying to Hive Project ICO bounty with multiple accounts. We have tried to make the equal playing field throughout the bounty program, so we believe this kind of behaviour was against it.
Late address submission
We have contacted social bounty participants through Twitter Direct Message and asked that the ETH addresses for Facebook bounties should be provided through a form by September 1st at 10.00 a.m. (UTC).
One third of bounty participants failed to respond to our Twitter Direct Message and half of Facebook bounty participants didn’t supply the information through the Google Form.
While we understand the frustration of those participants who have failed to do so in time, we gave all participants time to do so. The delivery was made via an automated process, so waiting was not an option.
We would once again want to thank you all for supporting our campaign and making Hive Project a reality.
