Requests for Reporting

Last Updated: July 9th, 2026

Requests for Reporting allow Aemula community members to request topics they want to see covered by independent journalists on Aemula, creating a bounty incentive for journalists to fufill requests.

Overview

For Readers

• Submit requests for reporting to incentivize independent journalists to report on topics or events that you want to see covered
• Upvote requests to increase the incentives associated with that request, increasing the chance journalists fulfill it
• Read posts that fulfill requests to explore the perspectives of different independent journalists on that topic
• Report requests that contain harmful or spam content

For Journalists

• Attach new or existing posts to active requests to become eligible to earn from the bounty associated with that request
• The more upvotes on a request, the higher the bounty
• Request bounties are split among the attached posts at the end of each month based on effective interactions
• Read the full terms and eligibility requirements for earning request bounties

Requesting Reporting

Submitting Requests

Users with an active Aemula subscription are able to submit Requests for Reporting to the community. Submitting requests are included for free with your subscription. You are limited to have 5 requests for reporting active at any given time.

The request should clearly outline the topic or event you want to see covered, providing enough information for journalists to conduct relevant reporting. Requests are text only and limited to 280 characters.

Currently, requests for reporting stay active for 30 days. After 30 days, your request will be archived and journalists can no longer submit posts to fulfill the request and the associated bounty is paid out or expires.

If your request contains harmful content or spam, members of the community can report your request and get it removed from the list of active requests, which will have a significant negative impact on your Aemula reputation and potentially restrict your ability to access reputation-gated features.

Request Bounties

Submitting a request creates an associated bounty pool to incentivize journalists to fulfill the request. The bounty pool increases with upvotes from other users in the Aemula community, increasing the chance that a journalist will fulfill the request.

Read how Request Bounties are calculated

Any posts published to fulfill your request will be listed on your request's page. Interacting with the posts fulfilling your request will determine how the share of the request's bounty pool earned by the journalist.

Upvoting & Reporting Requests

Users can upvote requests for reporting that they want to see covered by clicking the up arrow beside each request. Upvoting requests increases the bounty pool associated with that specific request, increasing the chance that journalists will fulfill the request. Requests for reporting are listed in descending order of upvotes, so upvoting requests can give them more exposure to the community, which can lead to more upvotes.

Users can also report requests for containing harmful content or spam by clicking the flag icon on the right of a request or the three dots on the right of a request preview and then selecting "Report". Requests for reporting are a community-moderated feature to ensure the freedom of speech is not encroached upon by any central authority. However, it is important to remove any explicitly harmful content or spam. What constitutes "harmful" or "spam" is up to your discretion, but requests should not be supported simply because you disagree with them ideologically.

Reporting requests that the community widely agrees to be valid requests can negatively impact your Aemula reputation. Reporting requests that inevitably get removed for containing harmful or spam content can positively impact your Aemula reputation.

Fulfilling Requests

Attaching Posts to Requests

As a publisher on Aemula, you can attach published posts to requests for reporting to be considered as having fulfilled the request. When on a specific request's page, you can choose to attach an existing published post or write a new post attached to the request. You can only attach a post to one request at a time. You can detach posts from requests at any time from the request's page.

Earning Request Bounties

Attaching a post to a request enters it into consideration to earn a share of the bounty pool associated with that request. To be eligible to earn request bounties, you must be based in U.S. and over the age of 18.

See the full Request Bounty Terms here

Currently, Aemula sets a collective bounty pool each month to fund the individual bounties for specific requests. A request's individual bounty pool is determined based on the number of upvotes it receives and the number of days it is active during the month, relative to all other active requests during the month.

When you attach a post to a request, your post will be able to earn from the request's associated bounty while the request is active. These bounty earnings are in addition to the earnigs your post receives from the Author Payout Pool as funded by Aemula subscriptions.

Bounty earnings for each month are split among the attached posts for a specific request based on their portion of effective interactions received while attached to the request. Earnings are paid out alongside your standard Author Payout Pool earnings on a monthly basis.

If you have any questions or run into any issues, please reach out to support@aemula.com.