Bounty reward question

babo4ka

Suppose, person # 1 (Buyer) desperately wants a certain pattern and places a Bounty for it.

Suppose, person #2 (Seller) posts the pattern without knowing of the pending Bounty.

Suppose, person #3 (Onlooker) spots both the pattern and the bounty, and notifies the moderators about it in a designated Forum area.

Question: Who gets the reward, Seller or Onlooker?

MissPriss

Seller, but the Onlooker gets a 10 or 20 gold reward for reporting it, and it's a nice thing to do on the Onlooker's part. I've been the Onlooker several times, and I like knowing that the Buyer got to be notified of their pattern being uploaded because of me, and that the Seller got to be rewarded for their generosity.

Frelldor

Of course, the seller gets this reward. The one who uploaded the pattern gets the reward. But there is such a system that you need to leave a comment in the Bounty topic to get this reward. Therefore, the seller receives a PM letter from the moderator so that he does this. Until you leave a comment, the reward is not paid. But from my own experience .... if the Bounty is very old and several years old, then the process of receiving the reward is often delayed. I recently responded to an old Bounty. Then they credited me with the reward only after an onlooker was found who notified it.

babo4ka

Thanks, MissPriss and @Frelldor, for clarification!

ChrisPBacon

seller gets bounty reward. onlooker gets rating from moderator for reporting it

Caro1970

Normally the moderator check every post for duplicate or bounty.
So when a moderator see there is a bounty for it, the moderator will report it here.

https://www.pindiy.com/thread-537863-1-1.html

But sometimes the title of the bounty is not very clear or has the wrong information so the moderator will not find it.
Thanks it can happen that a member see this and he /she can report it in the link above.
He /she will get a little reward for reporting it.
The big reward of the bounty will go to the member who posted the pattern.