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Hi! New member here! Are linked accounts visible to other members? I don't mind sharing with site admins but (for safety reasons) don't wish to have it easily accessible for anyone.

Dave's avatar

Welcome!

Staff will probably reply. But the idea of the connected accounts is that is where you post your bounty entries for some bounties such as videos, screenshots or live streams (youtube etc). On your profile itself they are not at this time visible to others by looking at your profile page but there has been talk of having this as an option the future.

What happens then is you embed your public social post into your bounty entry and as your account is connected it comes up with a green original banner around it to prove it's your account/content and not someone else's.

What most of us have done that didn't have public branded social channels and only private accounts. Is that we created new public accounts and linked those rather than our personal accounts. I would recommend doing the same from what you are talking about with the privacy issue (come up with a brand/stage name). You might find, like a few of us that you then enjoy making videos, public posts, learning new skills and start to build an audience over the long term.

Hope that makes sense. Otherwise if you don't want to do any of that then other than PayPal there is no need to link anything if you just want to do text bounry entries and join in the discussions.

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Thanks so much for the detailed explaination! Still learning my way through the site. Much much appreciated.

FirestormGamingTeam's avatar

Whatever you have linked is only visible to you and admins, when you psot something from those sites, people can then click to go to your public pages

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Thanks so much for taking the time to explain this to me!

Boomer's avatar

Hi Anna, welcome to the platform 😊, and thanks Dave and EveOnlineTutorials for those really helpful explanations!

A connected PayPal account is only visible to yourself and our team, and that's only for paying out rewards each month. Connected social accounts are visible when they're used to submit to bounties, but at present they're not listed on your profile.

There are ways to earn rewards without connecting social accounts, including Organic Rewards and bounties that don't involve sharing to socials.

You can read about Dave's experience with Organic Rewards here, and Rupert talks about how we're experimenting with them throughout May.

FirestormGamingTeam's avatar

cause we is super helpful peoples

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Will Reddit be added to the social platforms at any time? I would really like to participate in one of the image bounties, but I don't have twitter, insta, or tiktok.

Rupert's avatar

That’s a great suggestion. We’ll look to see if it’s possible. Blue sky too.

MQC's avatar

I am getting an error message when trying to link my Youtube channel. The rest of the platforms I have been able to link without problems, who can I ask to solve the problem? Thanks

Thomas's avatar

Hi MQC Would you be able to tell me what the error message you get is? Also any extra information like what browser you're using, what your YouTube channel is, etc. could be helpful.

Thanks!

MQC's avatar

I usually use Firefox, but with Edge I have also tried and the same error pops up:
“No YouTube Video / Channels found”.

My Youtube channel is:
www.youtube.com/@Maquinamqc

Thanks for everything and sorry.

Thomas's avatar

No need to apologise!

Thomas's avatar

Hi MQC, sorry for the late reply. Looking into this, there's no obvious reason as to why this would be happening. Please can you confirm that when you try to connect the account, you are using the same Google account that your YouTube channel is associated with? I noticed that this YouTube channel is quite old and I was wondering if you've since set up a different Google account that you use for other things.

MQC's avatar

I think so, I entered the details of that Youtube account... the problem is that now I can't verify them or change them because the JustAbout website doesn't give me the option; as soon as I click on the link youtube button I automatically get the error without asking for more information...

Thomas's avatar

Hmm, okay. Please can you try the following:

  • Open an incognito/private window

  • Log in using your email address (not the "Continue with Google/Apple" buttons):

What I want to ensure is that you are not logged in to your Google account when you connect your YouTube account, so that we can be certain that it's the correct YouTube account that you are connecting to.

If this does not work, please can you submit a bug report via this form referencing this post. It would be helpful to know which email address is associated with the YouTube channel.

Thanks!

Thomas

MQC's avatar

Perfect, I have already been able to link the youtube account... surely it was my mistake, thank you very much for your help and patience, you are the best.

Thomas's avatar

No problem! Glad you were able to sort it!

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