[luisamodio]

The thrower gets to asses if the answer was a good one, or a bad one or just mediocre. This has no effect on deserving a payout as long as there was a genuine effort to respond the question. It does however influence the scoring (karma) system with which the catcher is directly compensated.

The general rule is that answers that are subject to refund are answers that fall into 2 categories 1) it’s gibberish/trash/unrelated content (for example someone that repeatedly copy-pastes the same paragraph with no relation to the question hoping to earn money), and 2) offensive content (anywhere from trolling, racism, misogyny, etc).

As for your second claim, yes, you pay regardless if you find it useful (unless of course it’s any of the two categories I previously mentioned).

And the reason for this is because getting a large pool of diverse and unbiased data puts you on a better informed position and may open your eyes to angles you wouldn’t have considered otherwise. Regardless if you dislike them or disagree with them.

You’re not always going to hear what you want to hear…

[phailhaus]

If a catcher spams your service with thousands of just-barely-relevant replies, they'll always get paid? Is there any karma level at which the catcher flat out is not paid?