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The bridge marketplace

Open asks for a bridge anyone can answer, and how to back them.

The marketplace is a list of open asks for a bridge waiting for an answer. It's a good place to find a split you care about and either write the bridge yourself or back the ask.

How to ask someone a whole thread would hear out to reply, how their reply lands for you, and why a troll reply backfires.

Where to find it: Open the Bridges page and click the Marketplace tab.

The marketplace: open asks for a bridge, with filters and boosts
The marketplace: open asks for a bridge, with filters and boosts

Finding asks

Filter chips narrow the list, and the Sort menu reorders it:

  • Filters: All, Bounty (open to anyone), Direct (sent to one person), and Mine (your own asks).
  • Sort by: Most boosted, New, or Trust.

Boosting and answering

Tap Boost on an ask to back it without writing the bridge. Your standing then rides on the answers it picks, like the asker's does: you gain some when later voters agree with those answers, and lose some when they don't. Tap it again to take your boost back. You can't boost your own ask.

Ready to answer? Click Write a bridge to start a post linked to the ask.

One bounty, many answers

A bounty can take more than one answer, and each ask can pick three in total. The person who asked can spotlight up to three answers. An answer nobody spotlights within 24 hours of being posted fills an open spot on its own, oldest answer first. Each ask has its own page where you can read every answer.

Answered asks move to the Completed tab, described in The Bridges page.

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