The journey towards frictionless polling just took a giant leap forward.
Starting today, you can make Ponder polls in a frame. Why does that matter?
Well, it means you never have to leave the Warpcast app to create them. And now that transactions are live, we decided to take things a step further. You can now add bounties to surveys that you make in frame, on Farcaster.
Why use polls?
Polls let you immediately get a pulse check from a large group of smart Farcasters, giving curious minds a peak into the collective brain of web3's finest. It's an excellent way to learn more about how the social tides are turning while also encouraging engagement on your casts. Currently, we're averaging over 100 upvotes per in-frame poll. Pretty wild.
It's also a great way to let the more timid among us have their voice heard. Even if you don't care to cast a lot yourself, your opinion still gets counted when it comes to polling. And that's pretty cool.
How it works
Use the top pinned frame in the /ponder channel
Respond to any cast with @poll, and we'll pop up the frame for you.
How the process works:
Add your question. Try to keep it short if possible.
Add your answers. Separate them with commas, max of 12 characters.
Add a bounty (optional). We recommend using desktop to add bounties for the time being.
Add token gating (optional). This is coming within the next week.
Finalize & launch. When you launch, the final button will pop a cast compoer up for you with your poll embedded in it . You can then choose a channel to cast it to. If you can't decide, you can always click on the survey and copy the link to post again later.
Bounty payouts for respondents
Every respondent has a 25% chance to earn 1/10th of the bounty until the bounty has been fully distributed. In short, the first 40 or 50 respondents will have a pretty decent shot. The goal here is to discourage botting, which becomes easier when the first 10 responses are guaranteed to pay out.
Example
A 100 USDC bounty is placed on a question (10x10USDC rewards)
The first respondent has a 25% change to win, and does. Pool drops to 90 USDC
The second respondent has a 25% chance to win, and doesn't. Pool remains at 90USDC
This continues until all bounties have been paid out.
Note that we take a 2% fee on bounties from creators that don't hold a Ponder Pass; it's free if you do hold a Ponder Pass.
Coming soon: Data Dashboad for surveyors
We're working now on a data dashboard that will show you all of your past surveys as well as more detailed information about the responses you get and the type of people you're getting them from. Note that any surveys you ask now will be visible in the future dashboard.
Conclusion
Every day we're striving to bring more utility in the form of polls and surveys to the Farcaster ecosystem.
It'll only get more exciting from here. Thanks for Pondering. ✌
