Early anecdotal data: turning off the bug-bounty may not make much difference... 😱
@bagder People probably pay less attention than you think (this is a general rule of thumb of mine), they may still assume there is monetary reward even without H1. IMO you should give it some time.
@buherator yes, we need to give this time to settle in so this is for sure not a certain observation just yet
@buherator @bagder I never even had a bug bounty for OctoPrint and yet I get slop (or crap) reports and beg bounty mails. But I used to be forced into huntr.dev, which at it's start handed out money for accepted issues in open source projects, and I slid into the CTO's DMs to get out of there as that definitely increased the amount of crap. So from my experience, not having a bounty program doesn't offer full protection against slop DDOS attacks, but it certainly helps long term.
@foosel @buherator @bagder I don't know whether "beg bounty" is a typo, but it's funny
Beg Bounties

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