Disclaimer

First and foremost to avoid anyone losing their precious time I want to clarify this "article" It's just some personal THOUGHTS I often have when I scroll through bounties and I would like to share them with everyone.

It's just personal ideas, not big enough to make a huge deal or do something pretentious such as to write an entire article. These ideas could perfectly be just one tiny comment on the comment section of some bounties, but I'd rather not do that so no one in particular feels personally attacked.

So if you expect some very objective, serious, detailed tutorial or something, you can stop reading because you won't find anything of the sort here; it's just some reflexions about bounties.

What do I hope to achieve?

Mostly share my thoughts around bounty, but also help people who partake in bounties get them awarded. All of this from the perspective of someone relatively regular at doing bounties.

Sell your lora properly.

For those who submit entries, I realized a couple of things I personally find unsettling.

One is, and I'll be blunt here, some people do a really poor job selling their lora.

The loras themselves are quite good, but you see the examples and... the images look fine, BUT you can tell they basically just recreated a few of the images from the dataset.

Yes, they look nice, but you are "selling" a lora to a person that is asking for a lora of a character, so you can pretty much assume that person has seen every single image of that character out there. If he or she wants a lora, it is because they want new pictures and see that character in new situations, so seeing an AI replica of already existing images will not probably convince them to pick that entry over other entries. You should at least try to show what the lora can do by generating examples that are nothing like the pictures in the dataset. Is not that you need to break the mold or something; just putting the character in a scenario not usual for that character may be enough.

Sometimes you see people surprised their entries were not awarded over "worse" entries, and you are like, "Dude, you just basically recreated that artist pictures, make a character that artist never drawn on his style or something since thats most likely the person who asked for the bounty wants.".

People seem so worried to show "accuracy" that they forget that sometimes people do not want accuracy but to play with the lora, to put that character in new clothes, new situations, and new places. If someone asks for a lora of an artist that draws Hilda a lot, may be aside from Hilda you want to show how the lora can also do Rose but in that style.

Showing some of that stuff may be a good idea rather than just make super accurate images that are 1:1 copies of some of the images from the dataset.

You don't need to spend a lot of time on it, but at the very least giving 5 minutes to make a "new" image that shows what the lora can make can be a huge difference. You may think it doesn't matter because you are going to post the lora for testing anyway, but even if that's the case, it helps because you are already giving them ideas to test it better. Which leads us to the next subject.

About posting the lora for testing

The second unsettling thing and probably the most controversial subject is about posting the lora first, then submitting the entry. Not very sure where to start...

I think I'll start by summarizing my idea: posting the lora for testing is the best way of selling the lora, but it may be a TERRIBLE idea to do it right out of the bat.

When you submit an entry for a bounty, it reads, "By submitting an entry you consent that in the event that you win the bounty, the creator of the bounty has ownership over your entry, and can do with it what they will".

So people who award the entry will have ownership over it if they award your entry. Most people out there are pretty chill about that and don't care where the lora is posted as long as it is done and they can use it, but there are also those who actually want the ownership to publish it on their profiles or even keep them for private use only, and they don't want anyone else in the world to have it. (And they would be in the right because the rules back them up and... well, makes sense because its their hard earned buzz they using to buy something and you are selling it to them.).

So...posting the lora directly on the site and saying "here, test it!" can backfire because it may read as a kind of aggressive move to "hold on the rights" for publishing the lora.

You may not hold such intentions; you may genuinely just publish them so they can try directly with no hidden motivations. And most of the time you'll be right, and there won't be any problems because most people are reasonable and don't care, but for some people that can cause them to rule out your entry from consideration, because may be they wanted it to upload it themselves or may be they didn't want anyone else to have that lora, and you publishing it defeats that purpose.

You need to consider that not everyone wants the lora for the fun and giggles.

So...if in the bounty they say they don't want posting rights, or they don't care if you post it or something similar, then perfect, you upload it and submit the entry so they can test it, and everyone is happy.

You can also, of course, COMUNICATE with them and see what they think about. The only poor move here, I believe, is directly posting it to test without even asking about the bounty poster intentions.

There are users who, when they post the bounties they make it perfectly clear they intend to use their rights, and some make it perfectly clear they don't care, tips fedora on both, but for the users that don't do that, it may be wise to check with them first if they want it posted for testing.

All the bounties are the same regardless of the bounty.

This is really just an extension of my previous point, and may be I'm missreading things, but I have this impression some creators really belittle low buzz bounties in the sense they believe just because they are doing it for a small fee it gives them the right to hold on to the rights on posting the lora, as in "I did it basically for free, so this lora is still mine, but give me the buzz" and they expect to keep rights over the lora, not transmitting them to the bounty poster despite rules clearly saying so they expect to get the buzz for the entry but retain the rights on the lora as well.

Now we are not talking about good intended "posting for testing" that may read as wanting to hold rights, but actually wanting to hold rights.

Simply...don't do that, man. If you think the fee is not enough to give it exclusivity, simply don't do it, and if you want those easy buzz just assume you need to relinquish on the lora.

For you, 5000 buzz can be nothing, but for the person who makes the offer, it may be all they have, or it may not be; who knows? The thing is, you can't bend the rules to your will just because the reward is low.

Now, of course you can always DISCUSS it with the person; there is no harm in that "hey, I'm willing to do your bounty, but I want the right to post it myself" or something like that; you don't need to be aggressively vocal about it or try to force it.

tl,dr

On your entry, generate a couple of examples that deviate from the dataset.

Do not publish it for testing unless the poster says it's fine or you talk to the poster first about it.

Do not belittle bounties or take advantage of them just because of the low buzz reward.

Closing up

May be you are thinking now, "Well, that was a waste of time,"  but eh, I warned you.

As I said, these are mostly some thoughts gathered from comments on the bounty section. It's just some remarks that could have been pointed out in comments here and there, but I don't want anyone to feel directly attacked by those remarks.