THE STAKES SYSTEM OF PAYMENT IN A BOUNTY
Stakes are a means of measurement. It is used to allot weekly payment to a bounty hunter according to his/her status/followers on social media. For instance, let's say Company A is releasing token B and there are 8 people in their bounty campaign. They have allocated 1million tokens for this. E.g
Facebook/Twitter Campaign
200 - 1000 friends/followers = 1stake per week
1001 - 2,500 friends/followers = 4stakes per week and so on.
Lets say person 1 has 1300 stakes, person 2 has 500 stakes and
the rest of the people combined have 4000 stakes.
Then the total would be 5800 stakes and will be thus calculated,
(1 million / 5800)*(amount of stakes a hunter has) in case of person 2
that will be : 1 million/5800*500 = 86,206.895 of token B.
So person 2 will receive 86,206.895 of token B at the end of the campaign. This amount of token is only possible if there are limited participants in the bounty campaign.
FIXED PAYMENT
Using the above scenario, Company A is releasing 1million token B for their bounty and they decided that according to the bounty hunters rank/followers in social media, certain amount of token B will be paid weekly. E.g
Facebook/Twitter Campaign
200-1000 = 500 token B per week
1001 - 2,500 = 750 token B per week and so on.....
with this system of payment, the bounty hunter is able to calculate at a glance barring unforseen circumstances, what he/she is going to get at the end of the campaign.
Take for instance person 2 is in the second category and worked for 10 weeks that will be 10*750 = 7,500 token B at the end of the campaign.
Most of the Bounty Managers prefer to use the stakes system for bounty payments. As far as I am concern, that system cheats! Not everyone can calculate accurately how many tokens one will receive at the end of the bounty. I prefer by far the fixed amount system so I know that for a certain period of work, this is what I will receive.
What about you guys? Which do you prefer, the stakes system or fixed amount payment for bounty?