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Comment by cperciva

8 years ago

The point of bug bounties isn't to attract the interest of people who are working to find bugs. It's to make sure that if someone is finding bugs for fun or stumbles over bugs by accident, it's worth their time to report the bugs.

  >>  top-tier reward of a t-shirt.

A t-shirt still seems entirely too small; closer to insulting than motivating.

  • Sure. I was talking about the general purpose of bug bounties, not the specific value.