Our hot sauce: Just About bounties
Bounties are one of the most important things our platform offers that others don't, and they just took off in a big way
One of the coolest things about Just About is our unique bounty system, and if you’ve just signed up, you’ve come at the perfect time to see it in action. Even as we speak we’re seeing a fantastic response on Just About EVE Online, our new community. Here’s what’s been going on.
Bounty hunting
A bounty is simply a task with a real-money reward. Post a beautiful screenshot, give us a video guide to beating a boss, and get some cash if your content’s the best. Better yet, we can combine those submissions into articles, videos, picture galleries or what have you, distilling a community’s brilliance for everyone to enjoy.
You can see this happening at Just About EVE right now; take a look at our live bounties or our upcoming slate. You’ll find screenshot and video contests, tales of war and altruism, even this $500 mystery, and you can see real EVE players getting involved. Why not join them? Remember to link a PayPal account so we can get you paid, and your social accounts when posting multimedia content.
Bounties are only the first of what will be many ways for Just About members to earn money. We have plans to share ad revenue with article contributors, compensate moderators for their hard work, and reward good conduct in general. Click here for more on all of that, and here for more on bounties.
The stars are the limit
We’ve worked hard to offer EVE players a tasty menu of things to do, but imagine how much more powerful these tools will be when we hand them over to the community. Native experts, using fair financial rewards to generate whatever they want to make and see. As content gets (even) better, we expect to see more members join, further driving the quality and quantity of contributions, and so the snowball snowballs.
And it can go further. As long as submissions can be fairly assessed, bounties let us put almost any task to the community. And if we know EVE players, they’ll teach us plenty about what this system can do, especially in a game so famously full of possibilities. Who knows what kind of skulduggery we’ll see?
Come on in and take a look at the bounty system at work. We think it’s quite something.