The rule is that a bounty is only ever earned by somebody who did not exist in
InstantAdPay before the mission did. The check was written so that an absent or
unparseable refNewAfter meant "no floor, pay everyone", which is the same shape
as the rolling window that paid 8.67 POL for members who already existed.
Now a blank, mistyped, zero or missing floor pays nobody at all, and so does a
member with no InstantAdPay join date on file. The gate can only ever be opened
on purpose.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The new-member gate was refNewDays: 30, a rolling window, on a site whose
oldest account is 19 days old. It therefore excluded nobody. Every referral
payment made today, 8.67 POL across nine people, went to a sponsor for an
existing member hunting. Not one was an acquisition, which is the entire
purpose of the mission.
The gate is now an absolute date, refNewAfter, set to the morning the mission
went live. Anyone whose account predates that moment was already a member by
definition and can never earn their sponsor a bounty, a match or the launch
bonus, however much they hunt. The 30-day window stays as a secondary rule so a
dormant signup cannot trigger a bounty a year later.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Marty offered 5 POL to the first hunter who gets a referral all the way
through. It now pays itself: the bonus is written alongside the very first
bounty anyone earns, from the same faucet, and can never be written twice.
It sits outside the daily referral ceiling on purpose, because it is one
payment rather than a rate, and it announces itself to Telegram so the room
knows the race is over. While it is unclaimed the board card says so, and the
moment it is won the card stops advertising it.
Set refFirstBonusPol to 0 to retire it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The backfill stamped firstSeen at seeding time, so every hunter already on the
board read as brought in today.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
PolHunter retains well and recruits badly. On 2026-09-22 it had its best day,
105 finds from 37 hunters, and had sent three people to InstantAdPay in its
whole life, all three on one member's link. Earning and sharing were separate
actions and only one of them paid.
Bringing someone is now the best-paid thing on the board, and the card sits
first in the mission list rather than on a promo page nobody opens. A flat 3
POL the first time someone they brought finds a code, then 20% on top of that
person's finds for their first 30 days, paid from the pool and never taken out
of the newcomer's drip.
Who counts as "brought by me" is the sponsor they actually joined
InstantAdPay under, handed over in the sign-in payload, so the bounty and the
commission always land on the same person. The bounty only pays for a member
who is genuinely new, once per person, and referral drips have their own daily
ceiling so a good referral day can never starve the finds.
Also: findsToday defaulted its day argument to undefined and silently returned
zero for every caller that omitted it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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