The bounty actually surprised me, too. I expected between $1000-$2000. That is one of reasons I like reporting bugs to Facebook - they pay really good, critical bugs are fixed really fast (<1 day).
It’s impressive that they are able to fix them so quickly – one needs to imagine they get a non-trivial number of reports, and that some majority of them are junk. They have a good triage + repro + escalation system.
Facebook puts out stats from their bug bounty program once a year. Most of bugs are invalid reports - in 2013 they had 14,763 reports, with 687 being valid.
They probably got a couple people working exclusively on bug bounty reports. I also have to say they did a great job changing communication channels from emails to tickets which show in /support/, it is way easier now. The downside is that you must have a Facebook account, not sure if it was needed before the change.
chill out man. you are turning this into something personal. it was only a comment at the amount he got for cheating the review system. even the OP said he wasn't expecting that much.
I wasn't judging you, haha. I'm just saying, it makes more strategic sense in general to bring yourself up to the level of others (however inflated) rather than bring others down to yours.
HN can be frustrating if you provoke it. The problem isn't so much what you said as how you put it: the combination of dismissive tone and superficial content puts readers here on edge, because too many comments are like that and we all find them annoying. As a result it's easy to have your good intentions misread. If you had explained the thought process behind your comment, I think it would have been received better.
