<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>troydavis</author><text>&amp;gt;  It makes sense to have some expiry. Else you can be left holding hundreds of thousands of dollars of people&amp;#x27;s money that will never return, forever, which really complicates your finances.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s a pretty simple answer here: return it to the person who posted the bounty. Other options could be letting them donate it (minus standard fees) to the maintainer(s) of the project that their bounty applied to or to an OSS organization.&lt;p&gt;The choices aren&amp;#x27;t just &amp;quot;Hold on to it forever&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Take it for Bountysource.&amp;quot; It&amp;#x27;s on the books as a liability for a reason, namely, it&amp;#x27;s not Bountysource&amp;#x27;s money.&lt;p&gt;(There&amp;#x27;s also an entire ecosystem for unclaimed property, which is where banks distribute money from customers they can&amp;#x27;t locate: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;unclaimed.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;unclaimed.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;)</text><parent_chain><item><author>hombre_fatal</author><text>It makes sense to have some expiry. Else you can be left holding hundreds of thousands of dollars of people&amp;#x27;s money that will never return, forever, which really complicates your finances.&lt;p&gt;Your own bank has clauses like this btw. I had to fight for my funds in a bank account I hadn&amp;#x27;t touched in seven years. And I once used a pay-as-you-go phone service that would consume your balance if you went 6 months without depositing.&lt;p&gt;But two years seems way too aggressive for this sort of project.</text></item><item><author>mcv</author><text>It sounds like they&amp;#x27;re just taking existing bounty money for themselves. Only if your bounty is from before 2018, you can only redeploy it, and not get your money back. Any bounty from between 2018 and today is just lost if it doesn&amp;#x27;t get claimed within 2 years. Future bounties probably won&amp;#x27;t be on this platform.&lt;p&gt;Sounds like a quick money grab while destroying your brand. Were they recently bought by a hedge fund or something?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>BountySource have turned evil – alternatives?</title><url>https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/5938.html</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>henriquez</author><text>This is an interesting problem that ruined a side project I worked on. I wanted to avoid forcing people to pay monthly subscription fees so instead I let them buy &amp;quot;credits&amp;quot; and pay as they go. Unfortunately many people bought credits and then disappeared after using the product a couple of times, leaving my company with thousands of dollars we were actually holding on behalf of our customers. My accountants informed me that even though we have that money in the bank it&amp;#x27;s not really &amp;quot;ours,&amp;quot; and we can&amp;#x27;t even find a lot of these people in order to refund them.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not saying that what BountySource is doing is justified. In my case I need to just wind down the company because I think it would be unethical to pull this shit.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hombre_fatal</author><text>It makes sense to have some expiry. Else you can be left holding hundreds of thousands of dollars of people&amp;#x27;s money that will never return, forever, which really complicates your finances.&lt;p&gt;Your own bank has clauses like this btw. I had to fight for my funds in a bank account I hadn&amp;#x27;t touched in seven years. And I once used a pay-as-you-go phone service that would consume your balance if you went 6 months without depositing.&lt;p&gt;But two years seems way too aggressive for this sort of project.</text></item><item><author>mcv</author><text>It sounds like they&amp;#x27;re just taking existing bounty money for themselves. Only if your bounty is from before 2018, you can only redeploy it, and not get your money back. Any bounty from between 2018 and today is just lost if it doesn&amp;#x27;t get claimed within 2 years. Future bounties probably won&amp;#x27;t be on this platform.&lt;p&gt;Sounds like a quick money grab while destroying your brand. Were they recently bought by a hedge fund or something?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>BountySource have turned evil – alternatives?</title><url>https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/5938.html</url></story>