We already discussed this topic a lot, both internally and on bct. Currently we feel like the bounty for helping out with useful things is too low, especially compared to the node bounty. That one was raised from 333 to 666 NHZ/day after some discussion on bct.
A small DO VPS costs 5$. If you invest 10$ you get 40k in one month. Setup doesn't take too long (also because of the guides) , and after having the first one up it shouldn't take more than 10 minutes to get one more.
Writing a good post or creating a guide easily takes one hour of time, probably more. Plus, it's of great value for the community to get people with those skills involved. Everyone here should be interested in good instructions and marketing, because it will raise interest, dispersion, and thus the value for all of us. And don't forget, a guide/post will be useful for a long time, a node is gone after the bounty was paid out.
Our calculation was the following: getting 10k for 5$ means if we give out 50k for one hour of work that's an hourly rate of about 25$. Add 10 minutes a month for maintaining the node, the rate for other work is ~30$/hour.
After doubling the node bounty, this is down to 15$/hour now, which is too low imo.
A question for the ones who received bounties already: how long did it take you, and did you consider the amount appropriate?
We want to discuss this with the community, should we double the other bounties too?
