So I have been barely using the Brave browser with the rewards for about a month now. I got my BAT tokens which I thought was really cool but today something went wrong.
I noticed that all my Bat tokens got credited to “Brave Publisher” but I remember disabling the auto-contribute feature since I wanted to pile up my tokens. However, I notice that my laptop still had auto-contributing still on. I also know that a lot of sites and publishers that I go to, a majority haven’t set up with brave for contributions
BUT, what I don’t understand is why did it donate ALL MY TOKENS when I haven’t spent 100% of my attention on a certain site for an entire month.
Can someone please help me understand and maybe help me get back my tokens? Anything will help! Thank you
Hi @SilentSilver, thanks for posting and welcome to Community!
Auto-Contribute, if on, will distribute the BAT in your wallet balance evenly across the sites you visit, weighted by the time you spend on each. You can set a cap for how much BAT Auto-Contribute takes to keep your wallet from being emptied (you can do this from the Rewards Settings screeen).
Thank you so much for answering back.
That is what I thought the auto-contribute feature did was to distribute my BAT weighted against the time i spent on each site.
However it took all the BAT that I had just gotten at once! I lost everything that I accumulated in the last month (first month I started doing this)
It’s not just for Brave publishers. Sites that are still unverified will go into a sort of escrow state – i.e, you’ve pledged X BAT until they verify after which point they can claim all BAT pledged to them.
