That doesn't really answer the OP claim -- what are the realities of this?
I like the idea and can think of many rewards I could post, but the hard problem remains: how do we guarantee fairness? The reward poster would be incentivized to be picky with accept, the submitter would want to minimize the work to receive the reward.
One common solution to problems like these are reputation based (eg. eBay) or 3rd party mediation. There are probably others, but I don't immediately see anything done towards this.
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If I understand correctly you create a PR that claims the bounty and if it gets merged you automatically get the money. Isn't it like this?
However, I wonder how copying a PR prevented and claiming the bounty instead of the original author is prevented.
That doesn't really answer the OP claim -- what are the realities of this?
I like the idea and can think of many rewards I could post, but the hard problem remains: how do we guarantee fairness? The reward poster would be incentivized to be picky with accept, the submitter would want to minimize the work to receive the reward.
One common solution to problems like these are reputation based (eg. eBay) or 3rd party mediation. There are probably others, but I don't immediately see anything done towards this.
Something that could partially answer your question:
https://console.algora.io/
Seems like there’s a feed of submitted and awarded bounties. Although I agree the enforcement mechanism doesn't seem super strong.