The Steemit API was live again and our nonprofit bot shamelessly uses it to run on, so while I was wondering why it hadn't restarted yet and contacted our dev about it, before he did anything I started getting messages that @ocdb was going crazy. Crazy was the right choice as you can see here: 

![](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmayU67gZ1oK7T15Hqn9bWhZZTkjM9NEz8fDi6oDRQotky/image.png)

If these were all bids that had not received a vote during the downtime then it would not be a problem that they got refunded, but most Steemians didn't bid during the downtime. After looking through all transactions and refunds, the only thing I can think of is that it is double refunds of previous refunds that were too high or didn't meet the criteria of the ocdb restrictions on max/min bid or post age.

Anyway, in good faith we hope that the community will refund these buggy double refunds back to us, the same way how we have refunded any previous buggy bids in the past when the bot has not cast the vote. Here is a list of the usernames in question:

<center>![](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmXCfknmZcJ8sccjhud6GLxDyUT6J5i4PqKcGSH6vJ9aJp/image.png)</center>

Sent means the bids they sent, refunded is the amount that got refunded and votes is if they received a vote or not.

The only ones that stood out were cardboard who sent a 1.1 steem bid, we refunded that manually just now, and then verhp11 who sent a 22 steem bid and got 2 refunds and a vote, so verhp11 can feel free to choose which one he refunds as they are kind of similar.

To the ones who sent a bid and received a vote, just deduce the bid from the "refunded" amount to know what to send back to ocdb.

#### To successfully refund to ocdb, use the memo "transfer" without the quotation marks, example: Send to @ocdb, 10 Steem, Memo: transfer.

Everyone refunding will get a small vote from me as a thank you for your time. Make sure to double check that the calculations in the screenshot above are correct and feel free to ask in the comment section if there is something you are unsure of. Tag spam below for those with Gina notifications, regular readers, close your eyes.

Oh and also, was gonna decline payout on this post but it took some time to check everything manually so I'll take the rewards as compensation, feel free to downvote if you don't agree. :P

@celestal	
@futuremind 
@markkujantunen
cardboard 
@verhp11 
@cryptoandcoffee 
@macoolette 
@felander
@blacklux 
@piotrgrafik
@meesterboom		
@axeman			
@ronaldoavelino 		
@countrabourdon		
@miroslavrc		
@for91days		
@anomadsoul		
@ashikstd		
@guchtere		
@whack.science		
@giantbear		
@tobetada		
@catwomanteresa		
@allover			
@rezoanulvibes		
@tegoshei		
@taliakerch 		
@por500bolos		
@lenasveganliving	
@jordangerder		
@galenkp			
@barge			
@madlenfox		
@livinguktaiwan		
@solominer		
@nainaztengra