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There is a huge number of ICOs coming this year and we need some sort of filter to chose most reliable and ligit ones. I personally use ICOBench.com to filter good ones based on overal ICO rating and segregated ratings per Team, ICO profile, etc. I wonder if it is a good one, or there are more reliable ones out there?

Dont rely only on ICO LISTING sites, ussually they cover only ICO with good fundings and market campaigns (which made only to complete successful ICO and run away with money), due to huge amount of new ICOs.
I personally spend lot of time searching around Announcments here on Bitcointalk, read one by one to find really interesting projects.

I think ICO bench is one good source if I were to find a good ICO bounty to join. Because most of the persons who are behind ICO bench is expert in the field of blockchain technology. And since I dont want to waste my time doing on scam bounty so I check first ICO bench.

you should not only trust to 1 ico review site.
Maybe the ICO pays them for review them as a good review.
You should look at many references of ico review site before you chosing icos

There is filter in the market that can be used for the screening of ICO's and thats "Your personal experience." Nothing or no one is more reliable than yourself because ICObench and sites similar to that one are getting paid for the ICO listing. It means any project that goes their is not the perfectly reviewed one. Some of them could be bribed one and it might just look like a joke but I think things like that do happen in this world. With decentralised nature of ICO's we cant say anything about them from the idea that they are having. Its better to study them in deepest way possible by keeping track of them each day or week and see how they are developing the whole thing.

Now ICObench cant do that for you so better choose it on your own.

Although there are many other ICO rating sites like http://icorating.com/ which are equally good, I personally prefer using ICO bench because of how their platform is. Everything is well organized and makes almost all the info you need on an ICO available. But there are times when I do comparisons with other sites.

NOPE!

Any site that mass lists ICOs with "ratings" are not a good source at all.
However, they are quite useful.

See these sites like wikipedia, a great place to get general information but you would never use it as a source to back up legitimate decisions.
So in that sense, I actually use places like ICO bench or ICO drops quite frequently.
I use it to quickly look up dates and different type of ICOs.
My core research is never based off of what they say but it does lead me to ICO's websites where I start the real work of looking at their team and whitepaper and what not.

The main reason why you should not trust those ratings, is because they are almost always paid to do them.
That makes it incredibly biased and unreliable.

Also, nothing beats old fashioned research.
Yes, it takes more time, but for me, I have yet to fail on picking a good ICO simply because the process I go through guarantees that I weed out the bad ones.

I basically do the same way. Use it as a benchmark to select the bounty to participate in

I usually join the telegram channels. But use icoalerts for the rough sorting.

Bit of a jungle out there.

Yes, I trust ICO Bench, there are many professional reviews from this field, so why not trust them. It is their job to do the research. But also many times happend to me that ICO had good rating but low hype and they didnt raise so much money to reach soft cap and the ICO was unsuccessful. So even if the ICO looks good and also has good product, it doesnt mean that has good potential to each soft cap.

Agreed with all people above - all ICO alerts are a secondary source of information. But you can never be sure that the information posted is up to date or even relevant - always double check with the website of the project or Telegram / other channels.

ICO Bench is a good source. You can get lots of information from this website. But, before investing anywhere, The ICO bench is not the only source. You just get some ratings from here. Do not get complete information.

Don't trust them 100%. Do your own research as well. Those sites are like youtubers getting bounties when they make a good review of an ICO. You never know how much they are getting paid to put a good score on an ICO.

Ico bench should be only one of the ico finding sources.Normally I compare a few sites such as Icoratin,Icobench,Ico bazaar and a few more,then I read the Icothreads here on Bitcointalk,then I join Telegram group and chat there about the ico.So it takes a lot of time to find a good one.

Base on my own experience, there is no ICO listing site that you would rely on. No matter the kind of trust or believe you have in any of them, you still neees to do your personal findings. With this, it doesn’t mean any site is not legit and they only list base on their own measures but trust me while they listed it may not be same reason why you wanna invest in an INitial coin offer. Thanks

Help point you in the right direction maybe, reliable? I would say none of these sites are reliable because they are probably paid to write reviews on these coins. Granted not all reviews come out favorable but still, majority will and this won't help you sift the ICOs well. You need a huge team of people to undertake all the ICOs at once, my advice would be to avoid them like the plague. That will save you time, headache, and most probably your hard earned dollars too.

I suggest, research on multiple places rather than relying on only one place.

And once you find some interest in a project, dig deep by go through the whitepaper, website, profiles of associated people on LinkedIn.

Then only make the decision of putting your fund on an ICO

As far as I know, all these ratings are paid for, and some can even be underestimated, in order for projects to pay them a raise. Therefore, I believe that it is not worthwhile to believe these ratings, only to rely on some facts and independently study the project!

Yes, that is one good step by looking at the rating of the ico bench site. But, I think you also need to check more than one site that can be used as a comparison. Most importantly you should see the utility of the project, the team experience, and the white paper.

I read that the ratings are bought on such sites. Therefore i would not rely 100% on it.
Of course, this can only be a rumor, but somehow i can imagine it well.

 I never rely of ICO review of ICO BENCH . A lot of good coins with promising project got a bad rating on that site. If you want a good review pay for them that is how ICO Bench work. I suggest make your own review by reading and understand the whitepaper and how the marketing of the project work.


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For now I think icobench can still be trusted, I can still see information about ICOs. Many ICOs are registered on icobench, and the information provided is also complete. It's just information beberpa ICOs sometimes do not update, maybe it happens because ICOs listed already too much.

I personally do not highly take weightage of these ico ranking or score websites before investing, yes if my selected ico has high score that is a plus and boosts my confidence but mostly i do not take these scores as my final decision to invest or not.

I don't trust ICObench lately. It seems to me that the community experts have turned the evaluation of ICO projects into a profitable business. There have been many such cases recently that Scam projects are rated high.

Personally, this site only gives us an raw information about an ICO.
But the important thing is, we must research deeply about the ICO itself, and do not depends only on the information that ICO listing site provides.

Yes ICOBench is considered to be the most famous rating site, but I prefer to use many sources when choosing to get as much information as possible about the project that interests me. Naturally, no service will give you a guarantee that the project to which the high score is delivered will be successful and not a fraud. Here at the forum your question has already been raised and it has been answered many times. Just in case, I'll give you a list of some of the services I use myself:
https://icorating.com
https://icomarks.com/icos
https://crushcrypto.com
https://www.icochamps.com
https://tokentops.com/rating/
https://icocrunch.io

Don't rely on any ICO Rating, Listing websites. But Icobench is a good source to start research about Good ICO Projects. There are many ICO Rating websites like Icorating, icodrops, coin checker and many other. But Icobench is the best among them, but it is not worthy to follow to invest your money. In Icobench they listed many Projects with good ratings. But The fact is Many people manipulate the expert rating system on icobench. They registered lots of ICO Projects as a good rating ICOs.  But those all ICO can't make success, Some ICO Got failed and scam. So, don't rely on the icobench, Use Icobench as a notebook for the future research!

that kind of rating sites has no meaning for me. many who have good rating ICO but in fact, there are results not in accordance with the rating. of course, this will make the site rating as it only as a complementary course. better do the analysis yourself so satisfied with the results that can be obtained.

It's good but they failes sometimes on the past so don't take with 100% trust.

You can not trust completely to any sources, even the most popular ones. I sometimes look at this resource and they really select good projects. but still I check it again on my own.

icobench is most famous rating site because i think they are have an expert in crypto to analyze the ICO project and give it a rating whether the ICO is good or not, there are also many advisors in icobench.

just one you choose which ICO is good for you and which is good in the future. because ICO definitely pays them to green them as a good cause. there is no harm in your review before you choose.

No. Not at all. We've been extremely critical of them, citing obvious conflicts of interest and unrealistic ratings given in exchange for money or advisory board positions. There are many independent journalists and bloggers that have written about them as well. Our expose is called "ICObench Warmer," available here: https://www.tokenicide.com/opinion/icobench-warmer/ (https://www.tokenicide.com/opinion/icobench-warmer/).

Lately they've become even less professional and more desperate. One of their experts doxed a contributor to our site and another one threatened a lawsuit, which you can see in the comments to this post: https://www.tokenicide.com/review/ico-update-etherinc/ (https://www.tokenicide.com/review/ico-update-etherinc/).

Supposedly they used to be more reliable but in the past few months the site is effectively useless.

Have you ever seen about the latest news about that? icobench just a scam site that has been getting paid to give a rating and listing the scam projects. There is bunch of scam projects are listed on the ico bench site. That's worst ico rating site ever i seen.

No, there's been loads of people showing proof that it's easy to purchase fake ratings on there and increase their overall rating.

I don't recommend using icobench.com as a guide for Project/ICO investing, because lately there have been negative reports (for example, paid experts, and paid rating)

Noticed that on ICOBENCH are gaining great ratings higher than 3-4 stars, those projects which ultimately did not gain or long to go public. but there are ICO with a rating of less than two - they give very good results. This means that these ratings, too, need look from whom affixed.

Thats why we should not ever rely on such score things, But we do can use icobench to check whether the team is real or not, cause they got a KYC on team, but still i think we should not rely on this scoring. The best way to find good ICO is by doing research and find it by yourself.

I believe that ICO Bench is one of the sources I use in selecting ICO for my signature bounty campaign participation. I usually check the ICO ratings using ICO Bench and the ratings were part of my consideration before I join in the campaign. It's information is very reliable and trusted by many bounty hunters in this forum and I believe they do continue to use this site as their reference in the selection of the right signature campaign they will participate.

A few days ago I have seen someone selling icobench reviews on here. Some project owners paying advisors to write a review. I have seen icobench 4+ rated ICOs already scammed. In these days most ICOs scamming and cheating. Then we have to be careful to find a good ICO in this time. You have to do your own research to find a good ICO.

Icobench is a very good tool to find a good ICO project. But you shouldn't rely on Icobench. Because no one knows which ICO will scam! That's why you should research every icorating websites. Personally, I always try to follow the ICO market Android App, Icobench, Coinschedule websites to find a good ICO and yes Icobench is the best among all of them.

Yes you can use ICOBench for looking for ICOs but it is not enough for profound analytics of the project is it a scam or not.

There are a few ICO websites that ask the team to do a KYC report. These are the most useful sites as it helps to prove that the project is real. These days there are so many scam ICOs that the first thing to check is that there is a real and active team, otherwise move on

ICOBench is good enough to be one of the references to choosing the current bounty project. but don't just stick to one website, because sometimes the rating given is not predictive or can be manipulated. you can compare with other websites like icodrops, icohotlist and topicolist. more than that, after you have determined a bounty option that is considered quite interesting, you still have to make further observations regarding the bounty information.

it's good enough as a medium to find information on ICO projects even there we can see teams that have been verified
but I said it was only the media, not all the projects that were there were legit, but we ourselves had to look and learn more about their projects.

that's why the basics of bounty hunter if they have an ico that they can legit an ico or bounty but not all icobench ico or bounty is legit because ico or bounty also has icobench but scam think because of another bounty hunter very nice is a bounty with icobench but others are not good because others do not reach the softcap so ugly to others but it's nice to have icobench because it's also safe.

Many projects use their ICO bench rating as one of their promotions because there are investors who are using that platform to base their judgments on some projects however, if you are a very meticulous investor and wants to invest then you should not just base your judgment in just one platform but instead utilize all the information in the net and search for different platforms. ICO bench is one of the reputable ICO rating sites but you shouldn't just base your decision there.

I heard that the rating on icobench can be easily bought for money. Therefore, I do not rely on the ratings of projects on sites, I try to study them myself to choose a good project.

I don't trust ICOBench, too many scam projects got good grades there. And that means a lot. ICOBench is a platform for paid advertising of even the most garbage projects that get everything they need. You will lose money if you follow their recommendations.

ICOBench and other top ICO rating sites are very useful to determine if a certain ICO project is a legit or not as they will review well the project and the team details specially the CEO because the ICO rating site reputation is at stake therefore they could determine if ICO is legal or not but not the success of the campaign.

For me, ICObench is a bad source for searching for a good ICO. I used this resource at the beginning. I don't know who manages their ratings but I saw many projects which couldn't collect  their softcap but had a big rating on this site; may be it is possible to buy rating on this site.