The Just About team will be responsible for creating bounties during Beta testing. But this is a task we want to hand over to community members in time, with something we call the Bounty Setter role.

To help you understand how we’ll go about creating bounties, we’ve put together a guide that explains the ethos behind the bounty system, the information that we'll include in each bounty, and the sort of bounties you can expect to see on Just About.

Ethos

These are the core guidelines we use when creating bounties on Just About.

They should:

• Promote individual creativity and community collaboration, and serve an atmosphere of positivity.

  • Our bounties should never be used to promote or provoke negative emotions and reactions.

• Inspire submissions based on authentic, unique, real experiences that are resistant to AI.

  • For written bounties in particular, we focus on the passion, not the topic. What were your unique motivations and experiences, what did you learn?

• Entertain, inform and educate our communities and future members.

  • We want a broad mix of bounties that serve the community’s culture as much as its growth through search-friendly content.

• Use the right format for the right bounty.

  • Always consider which platform best serves the outcome in mind, whether that’s a short-form TikTok video, an Instagram post, or a written submission.

Essential information in each bounty

All bounties will include the following information as standard.

Title: [A descriptive title of the bounty]

Description: [Explain why the bounty has been created in 150 words or less, how submissions will be used, and what the bounty setter requires for a submission to qualify.]

Format: [The delivery platform]

• Text / Images [Hosted directly on Just About]

• Instagram

• TikTok

• YouTube

• YouTube Short

• Multiformat [Where we'd like supplementary text backing up the 3rd-party submission]

Type: [Applicable to 3rd-party platform content]

• Original: [Original content created specifically in response to the bounty]

• Round-Up: [For gathering evergreen useful / interesting content created at some point by the bounty entrant.]

How To Enter: [Full instructions on how to submit a qualifying entry]

Total Pot: [The full amount available for the bounty]

Number of Rewards: [The number of entries selected as bounty winners]

Individual Payments: [The Total Pot divided by the Number of Rewards]

End Date: [The closing date for submissions]

Duration: [How many days the bounty is active for]

Social Sharing: For all bounty submissions made using off-platform content (e.g. TikTok, YouTube, etc.), we ask entrants to include the following in their post, and tag our relevant social handle:

‘Created for the Just About X community at justabout.com’

Our handles:

• Facebook: @justaboutcommunity

• Instagram: @justaboutcommunity

• TikTok: @justaboutcommunity

• Twitter: @JustAbout__

• YouTube: @JustAbout__

Disclaimer: Age and geographic restrictions apply. Please be sure to see our *Terms of Use* for more information on how bounties are created and rewarded on Just About.

Bounty Types

Every community and topic will present unique bounties for each community to explore, but here’s a flavour of the types of bounty you can expect to see on Just About.

• Long-form guides: Crowdsourcing the community’s collective expertise.

• QAs: Simple answers to simple questions with a single winning bounty.

• Highlights: Funny / lucky / notable in-game experiences in video format.

• Experiences: Player experiences of enjoying an in-game activity.

• Creative Play: Playing the game in an unconventional manner.

• Co-op: Play together and report back on your experiences / stories.

• Rebalancing: How would you nerf / buff a game element?

• Feature improvement: How and why would you improve a certain feature?

• Discoveries: In-game discoveries made by the community.

• Opinions / Sentiment: What the community thinks about an upcoming feature / event.

• Fan Art: Themed challenges for a community’s core topic.

• Screenshots: Gathering the best images on a given theme or event.

• Resources: Essential mods, videos and tutorials.

• Tournaments: Significant moments or exceptional plays in competitive games.

• Tier Lists: Ranking game elements such as heroes and weapons through polls.

We’ll continue experimenting with all kinds of bounties throughout the Beta period and beyond. We'll also make sure there's plenty to do, whether you're most active on YouTube, or prefer to set your thoughts down one word at a time.

We’d love to hear your feedback on how you think we can improve our bounties over at our Just About community space.