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Why not allow users to offer paid bounties?
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When I ask questions on python-forum.io I typically wonder why users don't have the option to offer paid bounties like https://www.bountysource.com/.

To make it simple for the folks who run python-forum.io I imagine it would be easiest to only accept cryptocurrency. I use cryptocurrencies although I find them ridiculous.

I imagine that python-forum.io would charge a 20% fee instead of a 10% fee such as the fee BountySource.com charges. Why charge a 20% fee? I imagine that python-forum.io would judge entries and distribute the bounty to one of more of the winning contestants.

Also, like 99designs.com How do I invite a designer to join my contest? I imagine that users who post bounties would be able to invite particular users to become contestants (that is, to submit solutions for the problem they had posted). I imagine that at the extreme, a user who had posted a bounty might invite only one user to be a contestant.

Yeah. I know crowdsourcing tends to be a race to the bottom. But right now python-forum.io has unpaid crowdsourcing. In other words, this forum is already at the very bottom (because people who answer questions on python-forum.io are essentially working for free).
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(Oct-05-2021, 03:04 PM)Tiel Wrote: But right now python-forum.io has unpaid crowdsourcing. In other words, this forum is already at the very bottom (because people who answer questions on python-forum.io are essentially working for free).
Yes all answer we give here is free,and that's how it always will be here.
It will be totally against all we stand for to ask payment(or link to other paid services) for answers/service we give here.

We have a Jobs forum for this and the only place we accent paid offerings.
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(Oct-05-2021, 08:08 PM)snippsat Wrote:
(Oct-05-2021, 03:04 PM)Tiel Wrote: But right now python-forum.io has unpaid crowdsourcing. In other words, this forum is already at the very bottom (because people who answer questions on python-forum.io are essentially working for free).
Yes all answer we give here is free,and that's how it always will be here.
It will be totally against all we stand for to ask payment(or link to other paid services) for answers/service we give here.

We have a Jobs forum for this and the only place we accent paid offerings.

Thanks for letting me know. I appreciate that. May I offer to pay a bounty when I post a question on python-forum.io?
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(Oct-06-2021, 12:21 AM)Tiel Wrote: Thanks for letting me know. I appreciate that. May I offer to pay a bounty when I post a question on python-forum.io?
No,only in Jobs section will payed stuff be accepted.
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(Oct-06-2021, 10:04 AM)snippsat Wrote:
(Oct-06-2021, 12:21 AM)Tiel Wrote: Thanks for letting me know. I appreciate that. May I offer to pay a bounty when I post a question on python-forum.io?
No,only in Jobs section will payed stuff be accepted.

Ok. Again, thanks for letting me know.

By the way, it should have been "paid stuff" not "payed stuff"
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#6
Based on your rant post I decided to post back here since it was about fees for service

When I think about requiring paid service for help I think about the 8 year olds that are trying to learn python that we have helped in the past. Where do these kids go? How will they pay? Shouldn't they have the right to learn python for free?

Yes more of us might stay if we were getting paid but someone always replaces. Those we taught 5 years ago are now teaching others, etc. They are also fresh and remembers what it is like to be new so can relate better. If python is popular this will naturally occur. New people come and more and more people come.

Everything doesn't always have to be about money. Python is open source and free to download and use and hence this forum for python will be free. This forum has always aimed at free education. And requiring pay for service is not aligned with our goal

This forum and its community has been around since 2006 ish. The community members change over the years, the domain has changed over the years, but the goal has always been the same. I think if we have been here for 15 years providing free service, we can be here for another 15.

When I think of someone having a rant about us not charging people the first thing in my mind is you are from some other python forum whom is charging people for service and is not happy there is competition that provides free support.

I wouldn't be apart of a community that only sees my question as income. I would of never learned python if that were the case of every forum. I liked how this forum answered my questions so I eventually became a moderator to help. Then became an admin to ensure the forum would exist and remain. I am not an engineer. I am father of 4. I would like to think my kids could ask questions on here from people who love python not think of them ask their paycheck.
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