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I have observed that most bounty campaigns nowadays are not complying with their tagret end date. No problem with extend the campaign but man, these projects are now imposing hunters to not remove their signature until the end of the campaign. This prevents participants from leaving the campaign. Poor participants cannot break free from this and to look for other productive campaign. They have no choice but get stuck and post for these companies. Did you have the same experience? or Do you observe the same pattern? please enlighten me.

I joined many ICOs in bonus campaigns, but until today, the value of them has not increased but just dropped, and I really did not receive any high value coins. These coins are of low value or they can not be traded.

Have personally been a part of a campaign that did what you mentioned op and it seemed like the wrong move in my opinion, but it is what it is. Honestly, I expect literally nothing from bounties these days due to the prolonged bear market through out this year and the current market freefall which has led me to believe that this situation will most likely not change for quite sometime. I am hoping that 2019 will be different, but am not expecting much though. More and more investors continue to leave the market which is a bad thing especially considering the potential of this market.

I constantly face this problem. Signature they require to be removed after the stakes have been counted, but they do not count them for a long time and therefore I cannot join another campaign.

We are still in the bear season, bull run is still remains to be seen. So these coins you are holding are affected with all those major and most coins in the market. That means, not only your coins gets downing value but the market is also bloody. So don't worry, let's wait when bitcoin recovers and the market becomes green again then all the altcoins will start moving up too.

I read conditions before applying for any bounty, don't just join for joining sake as long as you are not comfortable wit the conditions, don't participate. Personally whenever I see any bounty campaign that says it continues until end of ICO I simply look away, I detest extensions but it is understandable

Almost all bounty events have such rules, but we have no choice because we need it to reward us, which is why we have been deceived most of the time!

I noticed that too. Because encryption is now in bear market. Many projects have been postponed. The corresponding reward was also delayed. Listing is unlikely now. What we need to ensure is that when the market is stable again, they can pay bounty on time.

The worst thing is that we are participating in a bounty that lasts more than one month, and it happens six months and at the end of the company we get nothing.

Its a risk being bounty hunter, not many ICOs success with hardcap and can developed roadmap, even bounty paying with some token or coin  but when we can not sell it ..its useless

I also feel that this is unreasonable because they have to keep their signatures up until the end, what if the campaigns start within a year? We need change
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you touched a very burning topic .. now it has really become fashionable, to prolong the company and do not give a choice to the bounty hunter .. I got into such companies and if I was lucky in some of them and I was allowed to remove it with saving rates, then in In other companies, I was told that the rules have a clause that the organizers have the right to change the rules and deadlines - I left such companies and all my work was canceled .. I understand that if you stay with the same ease, they will also reduce the bounty pool earn nothing at all those, I think that we should leave such companies without regret for the time spent.

In the present time it is all due to the worst conditions of the market that is not suitable for any project and that cause extensions of the project. I agree some bounty managers does not allow you to remove the signature in the mid if we do so we will loose all stakes of the signature campaigns that's not a good thing for the bounty hunters, such rules should not be imposed by bounty managers. To avoid such situation hunters has no other way to continue its signature campaign till the project ends. I would say it happens mostly with all of us. I also experienced this twice but nowadays I always confirm with bounty manager that if I would leave signature in mid will you allow me to leave the campaign and secure my stakes so that way you can too follow for you future campaigns.

Well if it is what you are talking about,  then i partly agree with bounty managers because many of them do not do a weekly check, so how do you know those who participated?

Many project do impose such rule on bounty hunters and they don't have choice than to adhere to those rules, but when i find myself in such condition i usually exit  from the project the moment i find better project than the current project i work for irrespective of the time i have spent on previous project.

Extending the duration of the bounty campaign is not bad as long as the bounty management team are doing their best to give the bounty hunters the rewards they are worthy with. As in my experience, there are lots of bounty programs which extends due to the problem that their goals in the tokensale had not reached and some ICOs had been postponed.

This is the biggest problem of this market, that 50 percent of all ICOs and their bounties are scam. But you should be able to make a good investigation and to identify legit ICOs. It does not guarantee you great profit, but it reduces the chances of getting scammed.

I'm fine with extensions but a budget should be added also proportional to the number of months or days it is extended. And for signature campaign, I don't like it. If they want loyalty of their signature participants 'til the end, then they should have said it from the start to let bounty hunters decide from the very beginning wether to participate or not.

right. I have a pretty big question about this. They always keep their promise and always extend the project further. That affects a lot of our salaries. As the market goes down, our salaries are going down. I think this is being ignored and we need to be protected by the moderators!

Really, I also don't really have a problem for that, what my problem now is when the prize campaign is finished but there is no decision whether we can release the signature or not, and they say you can release it after the calculation of the stake and total tokens obtained , but has not been updated for a long time

You have to look at what your best options are when a project does this. Some things you should consider:

Have they added extra rewards - Sometimes when they extend the bounty they increase the rewards, if they have not I would consider that very negative.

Have they hit their SoftCap - If they have already hit there softcap you at least know your are probably going to get paid something. If they have not then they probably never will so by quitting you are not losing anything.

experience like that, surely all bounty hunters have felt it, but indeed there must be a change, so that they respect the bounty hunter like someone who works hard in it

So far I only joined three campaign I left the early two because I smell something fishy on both campaigns I immediately change my signature whenever I feel something is not right on the project I'm promoting I don't want to regret in the end.

Be reminded the team has the right to amend rules and allocation in the cause of a campaign and no one can object. Some thread do make it explicit, for others you get to know matters of this sort arises.

Yes, I also encounter this. Most ICO projects extend the duration of the project. This makes the hunters in trouble and very depressed about it. I have met many delayed projects and tried to keep the company's signature until the end of the campaign because if I delete the signature, all my stakes will be canceled. . Most of the campaigns I join are renewed for a month. So, this is not a long time to wait. So, I will wait until the project finishes.

Some campaigns did that. To avoid it, research carefully about the project before you join their bounty campaign. Most of bounty extend because they can't reach their soft cap/hard cap in token sale period. They are bad project and not worth to join.

Most bounty hunters experience it, in my opinion at this time there are many fraudulent or failed projects, besides that we as mercenaries are very dependent on the project but very vulnerable from the management side not in accordance with the agreement. now I am more careful because it is very vulnerable especially now that the crypto market is not stable or is falling very low, so it will be difficult to get the highest price for selling tokens.

That is how bounties really works, you must finish the bounty first before getting your tokens. If you don't want a campaign like that then search for signature campaigns that is paying for weekly or monthly then you can search for other campaigns if you are not satisfied with your extra income.

I agree with your point and i think you are talking specifically about signature campaigns, you are very right that there should be an option during the campaign where we can quit the campaign retaining our stakes and no disqualification should occur because we are asking for our work done and nothing more.

I have same experience, and also have poorer experience LOL.
But I think everything gonna be Okay, Coz I believe. Even I don't get money from one project, maybe next time I can find another great projwct. And I think this one poor project is my experience to get knowledge about projects and I can be more aware after this.

well you can leave but you won't get a stakes. maybe they get angry because bounty hunter leave their campaign to join another campaign. if it were me i would get angry too. bounty hunters can always break free and look for other productive campaign. if you don't to follow their rules better find another campaign.

We ar still within the bear season, pitched battle remains remains to be seen. thus these coins {you ar|you're} holding are affected with all those major and most coins within the market. That means, not solely your coins gets Andrew Jackson Downing worth however the market is additionally bloody. thus don't be concerned, let's wait once bitcoin recovers and also the market becomes inexperienced once more then all the altcoins can begin moving up too.

Yes I really agree on this thing because I already experienced this situation wherein you cannot be able to receive your payment from a certain signature campaign when you will remove your signature to join for another signature campaign so always choose carefully those campaigns which is always in your best interest in which you will always received your payment even if you will leave that certain campaign to participate for another campaign.

I suppose to be agreed with you, Some of them are still on that campaign. Also I added the slow calculating of the stakes. So once your stakes are not yet counted you cannot remove it, Once you removed it you'll be disqualified on the campaign. So the other sacrificed their old bounty campaign to the new one. So sad about that.

I ever once or twice as i remember.. I don't mind to wearing signature although not according from provision.. more important thing is the payment is not due..

Now this is indeed bad. because many bounty hunters don't get their payments. in my opinion this is indeed a problem. because indeed the bounty itself is very rare to get many benefits for the participants

Yeah agree with you I have seen the same thing and also when the campaign is extended the rewards remains the same which is also not a justifying thing. And keeping the participants to keep the signature intact until the campaign ends is very shady behavior participants should be allowed to leave the campaign at their own will.

Most of the bounty projects present time-consuming work for a very long time, but the reward value is very noticeable. The consequences of the ETH currency have been falling for several months. After nearly 6 months of joining the bounty, I still have not really earned the maximum current of only $ 100 for 6 months of work on an average of 20 projects each month.

When these conditions, of course, investors are also thinking of investing, but I think this will only be temporary when I see the history of BTC, I'm sure he will return to prosperity.

On my own thought of this is that, it is their strategy so that bounty hunters will have no choice to join other campaign. They will see how loyal you are in the campaign. But some campaign are easily understand why you are quitting and proceed to the other campaign.

indeed that is the reality that bounties are experiencing now, many projects that extend the duration of the ICO and bounty participants also have to maintain their signatures, even though the results obtained are not too many but what else can we do to follow these rules so that we get rewards.

yes, I'm also a bounty hunter and now I'm stuck. as is usually done by bounty hunters, they work and after receiving a reward they will sell. while the reality is that currently there are many bounties that have not yet started token distribution or launch their tokens to market exchangers. It feels like it can't do anything, because like most bounty hunters, I only have a little eth to hodl.

there are different patterns, really. what you mentioned is quite often thing to happen, though. not really pleasant, and i do agree that bounty hunters are in a position of no position at all

There are some reasons for this to play, if the project is one that the manager leave everything till the end of the campaign before updating the sheets this could get difficult to verify everyone withing a short time frame but I think with the look of things now some people feel some campaigns are deliberately using delay tactic to make them carry this signature more than necessary, this is why it is important to know more about the manager before joining a project

It seems like this case has been around for a long time since 2018 this mid started to happen even with a campaign that was so long after Iico was not paid and also they tried to delay payment by doing Kyc and so on. .
This cheating is normal for me because there is no law that can punish those who act fraudulently as we just bounty can be quiet and surrender to being paid thankfully not paid, no one thinks it is an experience for us. .

Most of us facing same condition mostly campaigns didn’t gave a date to remove signature.
But they require keeping signature up to stack calculation it also doesn’t matter but the matter is some campaigns take months to calculate the stack which is un fair.

You have the choice to make, you are free to walk out of that campaign.
If they will not save your stakes then its up to them.
Just tell them first you are leaving and go on to other bounties.

They are usually extending their campaigns because they do not raise enough funds from their ICOs or the market situation is such which favor investment. But many of the bounty campaigns do not give rewards to the bounty hunters when the campaign gets extended or paused. I think they should make a rule that if a participant posted continuously for more then 4 weeks and want to leave the campaign, his stakes should be counted for those weeks and pay him a reward.

In my experience from a previous bounty campaign it took about 2 or 3 weeks before we could able to remove our signature because they are stating that there are so many cheaters in the campaign which they will need to filter out from those who are legit. Well in my opinion try to communicate with the bounty managers sometime if they would allow you to remove it before the announcement.

I am now very disappointed with bountiful managers. They do not want to listen to us. We are suffering. Many extend to the end of the ICO.

I believe that's better than having kne particular project that says that we will oy receive our tokens with the investors demand.

Yes, there are several that impose that rule, but you can also talk to bounty managers to reach an agreement, I respect the initial rules, what I consider an abuse is when they change to rules that are not at all favorable in the middle of the campaign, if it is clear that the signature cannot be removed from the beginning is fine, but if implemented later it is an abuse.

Never faced this but I scouted for some bounties and sad to say that they are really imposing this type of rule.

From the very beginning, you shouldn't join that bounty if you don't believe on it and you want to jump into another project. It's about the loyalty to where you are joining and I think that is being considered by the bounty manager but if you just can't take that rule then you shouldn't participate.

in my opinion also still in a reasonable condition, during the update process is done indeed we are required to wait for it. because every policy applied by the project team always has a difference. and we as slaves only need to be patient

Of the many companies you can exit and save the steaks if you can't do that then I consider it a prison because sometimes companies extend on a month and payments then small.

YES. this is a very big problem. Some bounty campaigns are not honest. I don't know how to avoid this problem and how to make their work correctly.

There is much more harder to gain a big money from ICO today. So the teams use different practices to get more fund during crowdsale period. Unfortunately prolonged terms of crowdsale is one of these practices. But more successful ICO brings more valuable coins for bounty hunters.
We should understand that we can not avoid that. Instead we should be prepare for that.

Yes, I have experienced such case, but I didn't quit The campaign because there was no deserve campaign I knew at that time.
I would say if you face a great campaign then you have to leave and not to stick with the extended campaign.

It happens that the company has not collected the money they expected and they extend the bounty, otherwise they pay for our work much less than promised.

Yes i agree with you! Many ICO projects nowadays are just like that. Im not saying that all of the bounties but mostly of them are forcing participants to do that so they are no choice but to continue and stay just to make sure they will be get paid. I experienced that too so i know how it feels to get stucked and can't join to other sig campaign.

We are in a very hard and bearish situation , I can't blame ICOs and bunties , Some of signature campaigns wants you to be with them till end of the campaign but some of them don't need that and you can join then , Although I don't think even ICO bounty hunting is profitable like before but I have hope.

I have also experienced that the bounty was prolonged until the end of the ICO  and it become a never ending campaign. Luckily I have quit from it  and not lost too much time. I can understand that it is connected to the market situation but it is not fair to the hunters.

more than half of the campaigns extend the end of the bounty and I think that this is wrong

Indeed, bounty hunters are struggling at this point maybe due to the negative influence of market behavior. Many projects are delaying the crowdsale or the project itself to be sble to atleast avoid the downtrend and is for the betterment of the project for a long run. As such bounty hunters should consider such actions made by the team behind projects and to be patient at times like this. Profit will again be durely earned once recovery occur.

General bounty activities have a time limit for the end. If you accept the job, you must stick to it at that time, instead of giving it up in the middle.

Indeed it is currently happening. This is enough to inhibit searching for results of bounty due to having to wait too long when there is an opportunity to join another project which is also productive and even more. the extension of the campaign sometimes also quite disappointing because this certainly should be increasingly longer wait and work on the same project and not necessarily this can give great results.

When ever i met this kind of project, I usually left it behind and look for another project that are better than the current project.
Cause we can't rely on a project that is uncertain, So it's better regret because looking for a better option then regret because of staying or doing nothing.

this kind projects usually didnt give us worthed reward when it listed in market.and maybe it would waste our time.personally iam prefer to left and find new bounty campaign.

true it is. This is just a waste of time and better leave it out. It would be very unfortunate if just wishing on the campaign too long even it speaks. many sales are not successful at this and when it continues to be followed even when entered in the market will not provide a satisfactory profit.

this is good to read instruction before joining signature campaign and most time ask questions from bounty manager in case you are not clear with the rules or you have one or two things to confirm. And also do not join bounty just because you see big money allocated. Make sure you have some bounty  managers you have confidence in them and their rules match what you are looking for in order to avoid any story on the long run. I wish everyone all the best.

True. No campaign should prevent participants of leaving if they themselves were not able to meet the terms. The non-addition of tokens to the bounty pool makes it even worse. Good thing I saw this short campaign by Encrybit, it is way better than those 20-week long bounties.

In fact, the continued decline in cryptocurrencies this year has led to a large number of unemployed bounty hunters, and now many bounty hunters should have switched jobs. Miners and bounty hunters will be unemployed. These occupations will disappear unless the cryptocurrency takes off.

Some ICO are asking for continuing their campaigns, but not all of them. But almost all of them are extending their campains and delaying the payment of bounty hunters because of the current market situation. They surely didn't reach their targets. ICO are in the risk of disappearing.

Some ICOS are taking forever and I personally haven't even been paid for the last three signature campaigns I did, one turned scam, one is still not giving us the tokens, one I may get paid end of this month so I no longer look at bounties as a reliable source of income. I used to live off of the income in 2016/2017 but now can't even get enough to pay my internet bills because it just isn't regular income anymore. I have resorted to day trading now to earn my keep. Bounties for me are just a hobby now if I get paid, it's like hitting the lottery lol.

We all have different type of experience has a bounty hunter,I have join a bounty in the past that won't let me change my signature because the stakes haven't been updated ,this wasted my time forvsomewhile but later on we were told to remove it on telegram channel.bounties is big pain in the ass now ,this year alone I haven't received any payment from any bounties at all.

Yeah you right, i've been trapped many times for this kind of bounties, we I can't do anything about it and just to continue until they announce the end of it or else we lost, get kick from bounty and don't receive the rewards and it is very waste of time of effort then if that happen.

Since the crypto market is not in its best condition, bounty hunters should be more careful in the selection of projects and be prepared for the fact that they will have to participate in the bounty campaign for much longer than indicated in the rules of its conduct. Now is not the best time for the whole world system, so the crisis is not only the crypto industry.

The most offensive when you put the signature and the company goes more than 3 months and as a result you receive nothing. Here is the most offensive and sad. No one is immune from fraud because in ICO and in generosity there are a lot of them. :(

No choice indeed, but just think of it as another rewards, if you get lucky and the project got successful you will gained rewards if not, there's no such things as quitting, keep moving forward and for sure one of this days you will be able to find a good campaign with a good system and a good team behinds that will allow you to generate good profits after helping them promoting campaign.

Yes, there are companies that do this to us, but there are also normal ones. I myself have come across this a couple of times and have been distressed, I think this is not right, but nothing can be done about it. Many of them do not even add tokens when they extend bounty and this is not good.

Although I am also annoyed at these rules, the rules of the bounty activity no longer seem to be our daily concern because the market is very bad.

Now, for the time being, there can be no promising ICOs for the reason that the market is simply in a terrible state and everyone has to wait until it starts growing!

I had ever meet that kind or bounty program where they are late or too slow to count on the bounty result that makes every bounty participant unable to remove their signature, so they got stuck in that bounty and unable to join another bounty campaign because the current bounty are forbidding the participant to remove the signature they are wearing

I have been stuck in many ICO projects, so I'm not too keen on any projects, with most of the coins being not traded in the market.

Someone on this forum was attempting to resolve bounty issues, maybe you can approach them.

Yes, so often happens recently, the team explains it by unsuitable market conditions and extends ICO. But it's not fair to bounty hunters, because they were counting on a certain period of the campaign. Thus, the current small rewards become even smaller.

Simply the reason is all because of bad market condition. Most of the ICO projects are collecting ETH and not the fiat money itself because it may be costly during the conversion of fiat to USD. Now, that ETH market price has down the liquidity of their funds holding is also down and project could not work on if the liquidity of the ETH collected to fiat is low due to market price down of ETH and other crypto.

I am also bounty hunter but I am little bit disappointed how other bounty hunters behave. As soon as hunters receive their tokens they dump the price of the token. They do not care about the price.

no its not about the market condition but that is only because they run the campaign pretty badly  .  i notice that ico bounties nowadays are run by newbies and inexperienced campaign manager , this also another reason on why thier projects have failed and wont ever reach thier desired quota   .  aside from that , there were also fake ico's that are intented to scam inoscent people just before they start the campaign  , so in conclusion to this  we should still do a deep research whenever or wherever we wanted to apply a specific campaign just to keep safe from possible frauds .

stay safe guys  .

yes, I have a lot of examples, for example Media protocol and some others projects by Amazix. There are also some ICOs launching stage 2 of bounty sharing pool with stage 1.

Many projects postpone fees, because the market is not stable and prices are very low. Because of this, they prolong the bounty campaign until the end of sales, which is not beneficial for headhunters. Now this is a normal situation. If the project has an adequate manager and the team itself, then they offer to remove the signature and freeze the steaks without loss.

This is the situation all bounty hunters have to deal with, because they can be sympathetic to the projects because the market is very bad. But if they prolong their time, their rules should be more flexible, and the bounty pool should increase.

Bounty hunters should follow the progress of the Ico they are promoting, if there is a sign that it will not reach softcap and the IOC will be a failure it is best to leave the project than stay with it and get nothing, I have done it in two occasions and my hunch is correct, ICO is a big failure.

A similar situation was.  I argued with the manager about the signature.  I had to wear another month after the completion of the reward.  It was good, but time was spent.

Actually we have no choice because all bounty campaigns have such rules like that. New ICO can make bounty hunters more pleasure by adding extra rewards if campaigns extended, or they can end the bounty campaigns on time and run another token sale, some projects did this.

What I've noticed is most projects are struggling with reaching their targets in terms of reaching their hardcap, this forces bounty managers to extend the bounty campaign by a month or two depending on the situation. Most of the bounties I've participated in which extend their bounties do not force you to continue, they simply allot more tokens to the campaign and those who are willing to continue can do so while new participants join. If there's a case where the bounty manager does not allot more tokens to the campaign and also doesn't allow you remove signature, then that's fraudulent and needs to be checked.

At least, that is something that has to do with the market, and that is not trap as long as you know the long term potential of the project you have participated in and the token or coin you are holding. However, I see a lot of reasons with the OP considering the fact that the team these days when it comes to bounty and signature campaigns, tend to change rules the way they please, come up with some rules to trap campaign participants, and at the end, just use and dump them.

Probably with the way things are going now, bounty campaigns should just end up being scrapped, and anyone who wants to use the campaign method as an advertisement should either be paying weekly in ETH or simply BTC. Until then, they will just keep doing whatever they please.

Choose proven bounty managers. Usually, if the project considers the services of a bounty manager too expensive, it starts the campaign on its own and they can be delayed for a whole year. Bounty manager needs to be paid, and therefore such campaigns usually have a certain period of time, on average it takes 2 months.

And which managers are proven for you? Sometimes (and pretty often actually) even campaigns managed by Tokensute or btcltcdigger are prolonged due to prolonged tokensales, so I can't name a manager that can guarantee that a campaign will and and pay in time. For me it's more important to e sure that a project isn't scam, in this case I can wait for several month.

Yes, such companies I also came across. I think that this is not critical. But when it is clearly seen that the delaying of calculations is done on purpose and the team is in no hurry to send tokens, it already raises doubts about the success of the project. Therefore, you need to be very attentive to the choice of the project for the company signature, because the signature can be only one and dont need waste time on scams.

Following the extension of the the bounty campaign, you must contact the bounty manager and tell him that you want to leave the campaign due to a change in the timing. Never had a problem with it.

I think we should be patient enough and wait for the right time to remove our signature, just stick to the rules given. We hope every bounty hunter would be given also previledge and benefits of.the bounty campaign he enter.

I think it is part of agreement. After bounty hunters are paid for services based on how the bounty hunter deliver their paid services with out disregarding the guidelines

Company terms are subject to change at any time. If you joined on one of the conditions that you were satisfied with, then after a month these conditions may be different and with this you can do nothing but obey or leave the project.

well in some extended campaigns they allow to remove signature. One example is Buddy campaign. Bounty campaign was extended for 3 or 4 weeks. Everyone got their stakes.

I guess not all bounty campaigns are like this. Some others often approve to remove their signature even before the bounty stakes is calculated. Yes, it is really too much when it took a week or two for the signature to be remove but maybe the bounty manager is still not yet finished calculating stakes.

yes indeed this condition is, and we have to inevitably live it. because this is the risk of bounty hunters. because before going on to become a bounty hunter, we have to know how the consequences will be, and we must face with enthusiasm.

There was one company that went only 4 weeks and the earnings were wonderful, more, so far, there were no such repetitions !!!!

 Is it so bad that they asking bounty hunters to not to remove their signature? Especially if hunter works for one campaign per time?

Yes... sometimes the bounty manager just extends the campaign duration, without any prior warning. And the worst part is that the bounty pool remains unchanged. So if earlier you were promised $1,000 for 2 months of work, now it is the same amount for 6 months of work. And if you try to leave, then all of your earnings are forfeited.

yes, I've experienced that. I am often trapped in a project and prohibited from releasing signatures, whereas I have the desire to look for other ICO projects, this greatly limits my work so I can't work optimally in crypto, besides that I don't have many accounts.

Yes, for bounty hunters this is now a big problem. Even, for example, in this campaign, the signature of which I bear, I have been participating since July 28, this is already four months. Now most ICO generosity campaigns last for a very long time, because the market has fallen, investors have lost activity and ICO projects cannot raise the necessary funds. However, even participating in the campaign of generosity ICO for four to five months, we now began to earn a few tens of dollars. This activity has ceased to justify itself.

Bounty Hunters are trapped into an uncertain situation, where tokens cannot be registered faster in exchange and payments are in a slow position. This is due to the decline in the crypto market condition and there is no significant increase so this is the worst thing for crypto lovers.

As far as my experiences are concerned I too was able to experience such conditions where in the company where I participated with told us not to change signatures until the distribution date which took place 2 months after the end of the campaign. I was so fed up with the experience that I ranted at their telegram page and they messaged me secretly that I can change it as long as I provide them some information like a mini KYC. I was angry but what can we do right?

Yes, it is all due to the current situation of the market. ICOs do not meet their desired goals, so the Bounty extends or fails to pay the full amount committed.

Just Hold, friends

no one forces you to take part in one of the ICO project bounty.
if you don't like the rules they make you can leave it.
I suggest that before following the bounty you must first read the rules that the bounty manager applies.

What about the ICOs that got listed successfully? Many of them are yet to pay the bounty rewards to the campaign participants. Even their attitude is not right. The campaign managers are treating the bounty hunters like beggars.

And the funniest part to it all is that you might just end up doing a single campaign for half a year without getting paid simply because the project could not meet up with its soft cap. Honestly, there is a lot going on with the whole of bounty space right now that pretty much sucks and this is because even the bounty hunters really tend to ridicule themselves with the way they behave at times.

Getting stuck is always an option, and until people start realizing they need to let project team understand they mean a lot to the success of the project before they will start seeing the need to treat bounty participants differently.

I think what we need is to be very careful in choosing bounties to join. Sometime inevitable things happen because of the bearish situation of the market. Well as for me, it is us who can decide if we will follow the rules but we need to face the consequences of not following it. Prevention is better than cure. We will just wait until the market becomes strong again.

I keep to hold coins from mining

I think such projects are often unsuccessful, since they did not follow the rules from the start. So next time they will also cheat everyone

That's right, what's important is to only support project that are legit so this community will improve and people will trust crypto.
In terms of value, at this current situation, it's expected that the price will dump and we should not conclude that it's not a good bounty or a project
because a normal dump happens because of the bearish situation, this will end and price will again rise.

I think extending of the campaign is not a bad idea to their campaigns because sometimes they just need a little bit time to get their target value on their sales and I think it would be great to get more profit in that ways. In my experience in the campaigns I participated their campaigns extended for two weeks and it really make our earnings grow.

Yeea, but you should ask yourself why those people are doing this?  I think it's because the market is so red, if a not so good backed up project comes out, they can go bankrupt even before they come out on the market right. Extending the bounty by my opinion is a bad idea, I worked for a bounty who wanted to be online only 2months or so, but untill now i worked more than 6months for them, they accumulated more than enough money, but to open and distribute token, it's not happening anytime soon I think...

All bounty hunters experience the same thing. We are all in a condition that is not as good as 3 months ago. Now bounty hunters are trying to be patient waiting for payments and they also have to be patient until a project works. When the ICO project they follow fails, the bounty hunter is certain to only get coins and they don't get satisfactory results. So choose a project that does have a high level of prospects. Avoid ICO projects that have quality like garbage and believe that discussing with many people will open up the insights we have.

The problem is, that the projects are afraid of a big dump, when their token will be live on exchanges, but they cannot realise that a big budget for the bounty hunters, is not the only reason of the price decrease of their token.

I agree, hunters are considered second-rate people, and not at all. Just everyone earns as he can

Some bounty programs do that rules and we just need to read it. I think from the first place you need to think you join that bounty or not. But if the rules changed in the middle of campaign it means you so unlucky. Trapped in bounty that we dont know lead to success or not.

Almost all are shifting the deadlines for next year in the hope that the market situation will change and they will be able to collect the necessary amount!

Yes, these extensions are very straining, I have been participating in the same company since July, and it was suddenly extended first for a couple of weeks and then until 31.12. totaling 28  :o :o :o weeks out (horrifying figure)
and it's a pity to have already spent time - to remove the signature, and imagine how much they will pay with the payments)) and I am afraid that the reward will not please me

Indeed that is what is happening now. Indeed, the bounty signature campaign in particular has a reason for the calculation of final stakes. But if it is very long it cannot be replaced, it makes us trapped not to replace our signature. And what often happens if you change your signature in the middle, maybe we don't get stakes. Therefore we must begin to join must finish it to the end.

It should have reached the end of the last week of the bounty, so the bounty participant can remove their signature. Or if stake in the last week hasn't counted, the maximum time they've been waiting for is a month. That's my opinion. But it's the first time i joined the signature of a bounty campaign, so i didn't know much about it. These conditions are also quite confusing for a newbie like me in the signature campaign.

The participants joined the program going to all terms and rules. They knew what they were getting themselves into. Then why pity for them? If they don't mention those in their rules to the fore, then you will have the right to complain. And if they think, the campaign won't be a success or will end up scamming, then they can leave it at their own will. No one can stop them. Just leave it and join another program. Better than wasting your time on that shit campaign.

Tell me, what to invest at now?

this is really happening, the longer all projects become worthless but this is a reality, we can only accept and do what is there because this is only available for bounty hunters. no need to expect big for the project we are following because our expectations will only make it worse. keep working

With this prolonged bear market, Bounty Hunters are trapped in joining longer campaigns (more than 6 months) with the same bounty pool or even decreased bounty payment. That is why I try to only joined a few campaigns (less than 10 including signature campaign) because bounty payments are not so rewarding anymore unlike last year.

Yes was trapped before and it was not funny cause I know what that made me miss so I had to reconstruct my plans before joining any bounty I read their conditions first I join and if I think the project is worth it I do not mind keeping the signature on

I think it no matter as long as they pay for bounty hunter at the end of bounty campaign or end of ICO :)). There are so many bounty campaigns in this forum and so many bounty campaigns are scam that mean bounty hunters won't get anything for months of work, I think it's much worse than have to keep wearing signature for months but still receive token at the end :)).

Moreover often the date of reward distribution is a secret. And nobody knows the answer. It seems many projects with of bounty campaigns have no clear plan of development. And the question appears: Why are they needed for? Promotion? But if it will go to nowhere it is meaningless because their tokens will never be on exchange

with a lots of new project showing up like mushroom around this industry, sooner every bounty will be nothing, like what is happening right now most of those ico projects are not reaching anything funds are not enough so they needed to extend their sale periods, bounty hunters are in need to wait or else they won't get anything sadly to say that they are really being trapped but maybe if luck permits them and they've got rewarded as there's always some little chances if they will just continue.

You said absolutely right. Bounty hunters day by day getting frustrated. Bounty campaign not paying high because number of participants. Every bounty manager should limit of participants. And value of altcoin (tokens) decreasing.

It's a little bit unfair to the bounty participants but most of ICOs have no problem to collect soft-cap, thats why we see so many ICOs that extend their token sale.

I had this experience. The campaign was supposed to end in September (started in mid-July), but when the date came, the project team decided to extend the bounty campaign until December. True, they did it competently, dividing the bounty into 2 parts. If you did not want to participate further, you could remove the signature. I continued to participate in the second part. I hope in December everything is successful.

It's common trend for most bounty company but some always keep to their words of the end date and when there is extension on the date, they normally increase the budget for the bounty.

I think this is unfair. A man worked a month or two. Need to pay for work. But many projects impose such a rule on bounty hunters. I have no choice but to adhere to these rules. But if I find the best project, I will move to a new project.

The current market situation has changed so many things in many ways, those who find it difficult to meet softcap believe bounty should still continue against the bounty stipulated period. These acts should also be followed with an increase in bounty budgets. If you keep me for too long on a bounty, you should pay more.

The mood of the market, respectively, is spreading both to project developers and hunters, now it’s not good for everyone, and we are all in a position to wait.

so far it was like that, you could not leave the campaign without losing the stakes and that was bad for the participants. bountysuite has changed its system and there you can leave a campaign at any time without losing stakes. that is good, but you have to sign up now every week again to get stakes for a campaign.

Bounty hunters are always victims, campaign extensions, payment delays and various other obstacles.
unlike 2017, maybe this is a result of a bad market situation.
Bounty hunter is not an easy and increasingly heavy work.

Nowadays more than 70% of ico not going to get success due to the crypto market going down like crazy and some scam icos but end of day bounty hunters hard work and time is going  to waste due to ico not successful to get funding for crowdsales so before going to do work for any ico promotions please check the ratings for ico.

Yes, unfortunately, now is the worst period for bounty. At best, the ico period is prolonged in the hope of recovering the market, at worst, the project just closes ... wait, guys, the depression period should end in a few months and the recovery will be slow, but still.

I also had such experience several times that the company had to end and did not allow for a short time to remove the signature and then extend the term of its work. In this regard, you lose time and money, and this is unfair.

Bounty has become shit that doesn't need to be say much about has the team or developer are now doing like God, and think they have power to do and undo in the process of the campaign but for me I don't care if a project proof to be scam then I leave and move on but telling me not to remove signature is out of it as they can hold their reward but will definitely pay the price.

Seen a lot of them campaigns are extending but this is because of the bear market which they didn't collect enough. Its only logical to extend though so that they can ask for more as they have to pay for everything that is needed like exchange listing which cost too much these days. But delaying the distribution however seem not fair that they participants have to wear signature until they say they can remove.

Some bounty campaigns used to extend their bounty program because the ICO is also extended. You can message the bounty manager to reserve your stakes because you will no longer continue to promote the project. Some bounty managers are also bounty hunter and they can understand the situation.

You are actually right, the last bounty program I did before joining this new signature actually did the same thing like you just mentioned i have to remove my their signature without getting any reward carrying their signature for a campaign end over a month ago and refuse to update the spreadsheet while the stupid bounty manager keeps us waiting so long by promising us he's gonna do it every weekend.

Actually you do have the full right on leaving a certain project if you wanted to but in exchange you will lose all of your stakes.I do understand that projects wont able to
end on the said date.Why? See the current market condition which is very bearish and accumulating funding wont really be enough that's why extension the sad fact
on the end where hunters cant possibly be paid up for their work.

When you joined on those campaign with the rules do not remove your signature until the end of the campaign then you need to follow that to get your stakes or you will be rewarded with nothing.But this rule followed by some managers and some other managers still will pay you until how long you got stakes on the spreadsheet so lets decide about that rule before joining on bounties then you will never get stuck.

Most bounties usually say their end date is at the end of their ICO and they give a specific date but when their ICO lasts longer than expected they would have to extend the bounty end date too.

Isn't it true if you want to find another more productive project, you can do this by contacting the admin at the telegram gift. There are some of my experiences about stopping an account because I didn't revoke the signature as you mentioned by telling the manager that I want to revoke the signature and when the project is finished, I also get shares before becoming a token.

i take my signature in 8th of march. but i am ot complain, because i can not see another perspective project.

A signature is proof that we or I mean working on the campaign (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4557949.msg41057364#msg41057364), is the same as someone who hangs an ID card in the pocket of his front suit, I think trap words are not the right term as long as both (managers and members) of the campaign agree with the rules applied by the manager. Alhamdulillah, all this time the manager of "NEXYBIT" (https://nexybit.com/) has always paid us on time, their performance's very neat, this thing we can see in the spreadsheets they make and they are also the best places to exchange with A2F support.

before join every bounty campaigns i try to discover how much they have been raised so far, if it's possibile. If they have at least reached the softcap, it will be less probable the postponed of the end date of the bounty.

Do not forget that in any campaign bounty there is a reservation that developers can change the rules and timing of the campaign. If you participate in a campaign bounty, then you agree to these terms.

Absolutely right, now many are extending the time of holding a bounty, and therefore the participants of these bounty involuntarily become slaves of the subscription campaign. It is time for bounty managers to clarify this issue a long time ago and either abide by the terms of subscription for the initial regulations, or reward the participants additionally when extending the campaign.

I had the same issues few time when they are extending bounty for a ridiculous time and not letting you remove ur signature without loosing stakes. The sad thing is you cant do anything about that but to go on with the new rules or risk loosing weeks of signature.

It is not sadly common for bounty campaigns to miss the target date and extend the campaign, the worst is when they don't meet the soft cap afterwards and then the whole thing was a complete waste of time! Just have to move on and find a better one

I think that now it makes no sense to invest in altcoins :(

Managers and ICO team have right to change the rule and it should informed at the start. Indeed, there's a rule for participant to always stay till campaign is finished. It mean, that campaign still running. Usually for every signature campaign, the code can be removed if stake for the last week has been calculated (if it finished). No matter how slow campaign manger work, he should give more information when it would be done. Sometime, don't be shy to ask in their telegram bounty group about it, at least some of the other participants who participated will answer if the manager is busy.

I am very dissapointed, that for a half of the year I earned 100-200 dollars, and I worked 6-8 hours, and companies with bounty managers thinking that it is normal situation

I must say that the poster is not far from the truth. It has recently become a like a norm for bounty managers to keep postponing the token sale date leading to an unending period of bounty. But I have learned how to drop and move on in such cases. In most cases, I refused to be trapped, especially if the project doesn't seem to have a future.

Usually, if the bounty is extended for a longer period than planned, I delete the signature. I had this experience. Well, if prolonged for a month, but usually prolonged for 2-3 months, and the worst thing that can happen is that you will not be paid. It will be trouble

I have been doing bounty for almost a year now and yes i experienced what you have been saying. Extending the campaign without any additional token allocations but what can we do, we should comply with their rules of not removing the signature or else we can't get the bounty. Just don't know what it is like before.

I have no such problems arose , I was holding max's signature after weeks of its completion , I think you need to run a good bounty bounty managers

m-m... what to buy at now?

I think that now, in principle, there is stagnation, because now there is no any good bounty companies participating in them you don't remain confident that in the end this project will not be fraud and that he would be able to survive.

It must be annoying, hunters must want certainty from the end of the campaign not to hang like that. sometimes the final time has been determined but there is an extension of the time the campaign also makes inconvenience

I would disagree with your opinion, as many campaigns recently provided an opportunity to freeze their progress, but you should participate in this period of time, for example, a month, and I think this is a good decision.

But if there are problems existing to the current problem, I can feel other bounty hunters problem that they can't transfer to a better one. They will not be rewarded with their stakes if they will remove their signatures in the mid of the campaign. And that's why some bounty rules are very difficult to take but if from the start it was on their rule then they shouldn't join that bounty. I agree with you that its about choosing a good bounty manager.

Oftentimes this happens frequently, some projects need to do this because based on their explaination, that the counting of stakes takes a lot of work and its takes more time and or days or weeks., this may lead to a waiting period of weeks to remove the signature, and the bounty hunter forced themselves to wait, in order to be paid off, and in the end, tokens still need to be listed in exchanges and the value is dump, its so frustrating to accept the fact, that this always happen frequently. I am a believe of bounty campaign in order to help the team to spread awareness to the community of the certain project, but please they need also to do their job as well. Bounty hunters should be prioritized, the same way with investors also.

Yes, I had such projects. I think it's wrong. We have done our job and there is no need to keep the signature for so long. If this happens it is worth considering, maybe it's scammers.

there is no trap. do your job and make good money in the future

I have not received a reward for about 4 months. I understand that the market is in decline and until this situation ends we will not earn anything.

I think this is not a trapped but a reality that most ICO are in deep trouble to find a good strategy to attract investors and in the bearish market all of us are affected. Being a bounty hunters we should also understand those developers that they are doing their best to make their project come to reality. If you did your research before applying, then you should stay and support your signature until the end of their ICO. Anyway, if you find that they are not doing good and not worth your time then why you need to stay.

I guess it is the personal responsibility of the bounty managers to check each and every participants of the bounty on time. If they did it, there is no reason for the bounty hunters especially those in signature campaign to wear the signature in a huge amount of time.

Yes, you're right that most bounty campaigns are extending, but for the reason of instead of declaring as failed and don't pay hunters, I prefer an extension just to be sure hunter got paid. Extension might probably the domino effect of the bearish period.

Yes this is popular nowadays in bounties. The ICO tram know that if they allow hunters to remove the sigs, many people will leave a d they won't get the necessary exposure again. They set their terms and conditions.

Well, I have such little problems where you had a good bounty managers signature you can remove after a few days , and most of the scams project Yes delay to you still wore

That's developer decision ( rules ) and we can't do nothing about it. They have their own opinion that might be used to built the project, sometimes rules change to fix and fix the problems. For me it doesn't matter as long I get pay and the coins already listing. Just follow the rules and enjoy the journey.

This is logical, all developers want to raise enough money to run the project. And usually in the rules of the bounty is always written that it is possible to change the rules. I've been unclear how to apply to the projects that have collected softcap, but still extend ICO?

We know that the projects are facing this hurdle but in that case they do not have to harsh with their bounty participants. They have to care for those who are promoting them. They have to pay them for those days in which the participants worked for them. That will make a good image of the project and may give some good fortune to the project.

They were trapped as soon as they decided to invest in this direction. Now the profit in the sphere falls and they can't do anything about it.

It is on their control whether to change the date or extend it.
You have a choice of leaving the campaign anytime but you will lose your rewards.
But not all campaigns are like this, some are good and have a heart which will save your stakes and still give your rewards at the end.
Some campaign are good and get the  hard cap and stop the campaign but still give full rewards.

Now all ICO projects are experiencing great difficulties due to the fall in investor activity in the cryptocurrency market and stagnation in the market throughout this year. Therefore, many ICO teams announce the extension of the ICO and nothing can be done about it. This, of course, negatively affects ICO's generosity campaigners, including signature campaigns. We really have to work with such ICO campaigns for four to five months and in the end there are no guarantees of earnings. This is just a bad time for bounty hunters, it should end soon.

This year, a lot of bounty campaigns have increased the duration of participation. If you've attended 2 months and removed the signature, then this year you are obliged to wear until the end of the year. I try to pass by such projects and look for better conditions.

Indeed this is sometimes annoying. When meeting with an extended bounty then obviously it's not a good sign. When it goes then the payment will not be given on occasion. But if manager reasonably wise then they will let that go and save the stakes for them.  Indeed now encountered this sort of thing and if a manager already curbs too then it is clearly not a good sign.

You should be the one to adjust for them, if that's the rule of most bounties then you must surely choose one best signature bounty for you to work for until the end of the campaign for you to not regret.

If it is said to be trapped, it can be justified in my opinion. I experienced this when the project I was following was extended during the campaign period. At that time I had been following the project for 2 months and in the end, the project was extended. And I assume that there is still a long time to get a prize. If I move the project, of course, I will be excluded from the campaign.

this might not be a problem for people who have many accounts, whereas for me this is a big problem, because I don't have a lot of accounts, so if a project experiences delays, my work is also hampered and stopped, can't find projects that other.
therefore, I don't only work as a bounty hunter, but I trade as another option if the bounty I follow doesn't work well.

You are right. I wish there was a better bounty management here on this forum and more ICOs that would guarantee at least the half of the offered pool for the bounty hunters. I hope things will change with the better market.

The position of the bounty hunter is really embarrassing, we have become a promoter of some scams, we have not received any return! This is terrible!

I really doubt the campaign dragging too long, really very time consuming that the value of the return is not worth the effort. I am stuck 3-4 projects ended but can not pay token. Maybe I should give up doing the bounty.

what can I do, this is the obstacle for bounty hunters, of course the risks that must be accepted. but if you have capital, especially the altcoin you have, you can trade. and now the market is trying to grow, trade is the best option that can be done

In fact, this whole cryptocurrency market is related. The large depreciation of the cryptocurrency market has caused the bankruptcy of miners and the stagflation or failure of ICO projects. Therefore, I think the price of Bitcoin is a weather vane affecting all cryptocurrency industries.

There have been many discussions on this issue. This is a very common phenomenon. The main reason for this kind of thing is that the bounty hunter must complete all tasks before he can get the payment, but the payment is usually just a verbal Commitment, there is no binding force for ICO sponsors, because they can modify the rules arbitrarily, can delay payment, or even no pay without any punishment.
In essence, this is an unequal contract at the beginning, and the only choice for bounty hunters is to participate or not to participate.

Well I have not experienced those kinds of bounties. I am not sure really but I would be able to accept maybe 2 weeks of extention but nothing after that. I would appreciate those companies that are able to take care of their bounty participants and not give them very hard times when it comes to waiting.

I remember the same situation was with chimera(xaya) people had to wait for a really long time to remove their signatures. And also they got the small profits

Now many companies are extending the bounty due to the negative situation on the crypto market. Earlier, when the price of BTC was high, there were cases of early termination of the ICO, as well the bounty ended prematurely.

Yes, I had the same experience.
The rules of participation in most campaigns stipulate that the signature cannot be removed until the end of the campaign.
What did I do? I removed the signature without waiting for the end of the campaign. After all, it is not known how long it can last. Or maybe the project will be completely canceled.

Actually I don't think that its a big problem, to wait one or two weeks till stack will be counted, however probably I just did't meet campaigns when bountyhunters really was trapped. So I can advice you choose more wisely next time.

Thanks for putting up this post as i am a victim of this too. I really do not understand why they can not keep to the set rules and regulations of the Bounty Campaign. Just image if any Hunters break those rule, such participants will be disqualify. Can we disqualify them? Absolutely No. Bounty hunters are always at the mercy of both the Bounty Manager and the project team coordinator. I participated in EOSex Signature campaign and now they(The Team) instructed the Bounty Manager to extend the Bounty probably because they haven't hit their target yet. Now the bounty that was suppose to end on the 28th of November have been extended to 31st of December and i have to wear this signature till then. I just hop they do not extend this campaign longer than this.

If the company is absolutely no and you do not see the point to participate in it, do not worry about your steaks, leave them and find a more worthy company. I think that with a similar situation met many. I go out if I don't like the company. Why be there.

Many bounty hunters now generally do not receive rewards for their work and I can not even imagine how this will end. I believe we could cope with it

Because of the falling market, many investors simply do not want to invest their money in ICO projects. Therefore, many projects can not even collect soft cap and they have to extend the time for sale. and bounty hunters of course suffer because of this. there's nothing you can do and you have to wait. personally I have already 3 bounty extended the deadline and when they will end exactly I do not know

I've been involved in a campaign since February (2018). The project runs for 5 months but then lasts for another 2 months. This really annoys me and loses patience. It's not fair to bounty hunters like us.

Yes, now it really has become much more difficult for bounty hunters to interact with bounty companies. I also have experience of such extension and my bounty company lasts for more than 30 weeks and each time is extended for 2-3 weeks. I can not get out of it, because I do not count all these weeks worked. So my choice is to wait and do everything as described in the company's terms or else all my work will be meaningless.

On the contrary, I was a part of the privcy.io. Received over 15k airdropped coins over the 20 weeks, as promised, and am now free to move onto another project. On top of that Privcy is rewarding it's hodlers with a 1 year continuation of AD for anyone with a balance in their registered wallet of over 10k PRIV. For less than a $100 investment it's more free satoshi in a bear market with a coin that hasn't fallen beneath 150 sats despite the seemingly neverending blood bath. PLUS POS rewards at 10% for another 8 months.

Please accept my condolences.Also I am a member of the bounty company Zero Carbon (social network). Already and throw a pity, got used to it)) But seriously that such projects are becoming more and more. It's all very depressing.

I took part in ingotcoin bounty for about 5 months, as a result, the project attracted $ 40 million, but for the team it was not enough, they decided to return the funds to investors and run ico again, but they will distribute coins for the bounty

I would say you are being overly dramatic.
Yes, it is frustrating, but you are making it out as if you are some kind of victim of a terrible scam and are being held prisoner.

Don't like it, then leave.
Maybe you will feel cheated that you won't get paid for past work, but you need to be smart about your time.
If a campaign or ICO is extending (most likely because they haven't made as much as they wanted), then that is a huge red flag.
Chances are, even if you stick with it, the token will end up being worthless.

In the crypto world, it is important to learn when to cut your losses to move on to better opportunities.
The same goes with bounty hunting.
And at the very least, do you feel comfortable working for such a company?

if the problem date or duration is not in accordance with the original plan then I can understand it, but when the gift token or allocation for the prize program does not match what was promised at the beginning, I feel that I am really cheated and trapped, I really ask that's why someone who wants to do that to a bounty hunter who receives only a few percent of the total supply

I came across this more than once. As a rule, a good bounty manager allows you to leave the company while retaining steaks. But there are times when a month or more has to carry a signature and write messages. Therefore, before taking part in the company, make sure that there is no point to carry the signature until the end of the ICO.

YES! In my case, hey extended for 2 more months if I remember it right ( with no additional rewards to the pool)  and threaten to remove all our stakes if we remove our signature. I felt and knew that It was unfair but could not really complain until they reward us the token coz they can just easily ban us from the campaign.  So unfair.

Yes. We'll experience this but what i usually did is to left some sound able text in such project telegram group and also a message for the manager to go check my work out because I will be removing their signature, and if not agree with me I'm okay with the already given stakes. The worst case is when such group never updates any there's a problem probably scam project.

The problems that you have indicated do exist, and most campaigns with generosity postpone the end date. Therefore, we only need to carefully choose campaigns that can bring us profit in the future, and also we need to hope for improvement in the cryptocurrency market.

Each Manager has his own conditions in the signature bounty of the company. Someone allows you to immediately remove your signature, someone considers stakes for two or three weeks. I don't really pay attention to it if the project seemed worthy to me.

This was the case with DBC.IO pretty much counted rewards and the like as still write that some people don't count weeks.

Yes, bounty hunters are facing serious trying times this days. Most bounty extend the time of the campaign without adding tangible tokens to it and even after the extension, some of them will still be asking for KYC which is not even added to the requirements at the start of the campaign.

Its begin this because of the bear market, they cant raise enough funds to begin with due to lack of investor want to risk their hard earn money in this kind of situation.

It is frustrating , I know.
I was stuck with one project which i knew will not give me a good payout after they made a critically bad decision at the middle of ICO .
The bigger problem is that even those who extend end up be useless ( mostly) because they dont know how to handle their tokenomics.

Yep thats very irritating. And it is becoming a trend now. The bounty campaigns are now kind of cheating the bounty hunters into this kind of thing. They make them work hard for them and use their time promoting them and then in the end very little or no reward and then things like these, prolonging the campaigns and not giving out the rewards in time.

Most ICO project actually adopt this dubious method but as a bounty hunter, you support projects that will bring tangible return if you notice that nothing is forthcoming from the project then you quit the bounty task irrespective of the time you have spent with them.

What I have seen is that bounty campaigns are currently decreasing at the time of the distribution of the tokens. We had many problems before with the unfavorable behavior of the market and now with the bitcoin price low, it is harder still. The bounty managers know it, I think they will come up with a way to give some solution.

We have all been praying for a time where there'll be better conditions of service for us. Let's hope a time to come moderators will help come up with new regulations that can help protect hunters.

Also, I'll partly blame the market for this problem. The market situation has scared everyone and they're not participating in new projects again. That's why bounties keep on getting extended.

Well i think its all good. One way or the other it help ensure evenly distribution of projects to hunters  which ayt the end of the day ensure that everyone get something to take home. So in the nutshell its a trap but not a harmful or dangerous one.

At the moment, the crypto industry is going through hard times and it has become very difficult to make money in bounty. But I hope for improvements in the cryptocurrency market.

tbh I feel like the crypto world has just changed a lot of people aren't happy or willing to accept that. People want crypto to be what it used to be, because that is where they thrived (otherwise they still wouldn't be in the space). Back to basics, support strong projects with big backers like Softbank and you'll do well.

nevertheless, there are still a lot of people who take part in bounty campaigns despite the situation

To be honest, I support the data of the decision of projects not to give tokens now because it is more profitable for us. in a bull market, we will be able to sell all these coins over a year

Most likely this is all due to the difficult situation on the market. I also came across such a situation and I hope that in the future the company’s bounty will be more honest with the bounty hunters.

I faced this situation like others, when the ICO was prolonged and the Bounty campaign itself, but thank's God it did not last too long, it took only the month. But I know the examples when after the prolonging the bounty campaign for 3 months it was prolonged more for 5 months.

the current situation is indeed sad for bounty hunters, they are indeed trapped at a very uncertain price. but I'm sure this ordeal won't last long. everything will improve soon

Well, i think if the project is holding them that might be a sign of a legit project which is the hunter must be glad because the project is moving but just delayed. If so used to all projects not legit worse is scam these days..

There is increaded risk that a bounty wont pay these days for example for not reaching their soft cap. On the upside if you find a good bounty there might not be that many people following through on it which will make your share bigger in the end. But yes there is disappointments like qompass who seemingly just left.

I am also no exception when I am still facing this situation but similar to yours, it will end in December, and this is really a terrible time for me and many bounty hunters because the time to wait is too long while the reward from the project is almost too low, it does not deserve what the hunter did for the project. But I and many others can not blame the project, this is the result that bitcoin brings, through this period, I also understand that bounty hunters are not a stable job, bounty hunters should look for other jobs to stabilize for life in the future

The extend and extra effort isn't bad thing if they could get their rewards and have a decent money from their work,
But the problem is even when they extend the project most of them wouldn't pay in the right time or the value of their token would be so low.

That's right if the project that you've select will pay you for your effort, that's how important to be selective when joining a  bounty as you will invest your time and effort promoting the project, it's good to joined with something that you fully believed and you can support along the way after the campaign was ended, for sure you will be trapped if you will not do extra research, such as knowing the team behind and what can be the contributions of this new project to the entire crypto industry.

I think it's unfair to compel bounty hunter to stick with a project by force, a bounty hunter should be able to move without consequence since they were not paid in advance to work neither are they paid in established coin for their work at the end!

Now projects are hard to succeed, so bounty hunters do not get tokens while they decide hard tokens of hunters for long periods of time.

it is just for us that it’s good to know how we can sell tokens obtained in bounty campaigns at competitive prices and not sell them for a pittance

Exactly, many ICO projects now end but can not transfer tokens to the hunters, they date a lot of reasons, so hunters are stuck without income to cover for life.

all of us are experiencing about locking or a trapped campaigns. many are losing hope for making a extra job here and gaining some $. and eventually some of us are using as a player for their own sake of a operation a project.

Your situation is found in the bounty quite often. This is a huge minus that hinders our work. Moreover, some campaigns delay signature withdrawal for a very long time. Very uncomfortable. Well, what is the way out? Some campaigns change conditions during a bounty and we become hostages.

The author is well done. He raised the right issue.
Permanent renewals of bounty companies and their terms of preserving signatures to the end do not lead to anything good.
Many are very unsatisfied with it. Especially participants with a low rank. Because when companies are renewed, new participants with higher ranks come to them additionally, thereby reducing the reward to those who were there from the very beginning.
This is not very fair.

Don't wait for the protection, survival of the fittest. I don't see any scenarios of changes for the better. The market will most likely change and throw most bounty hunters overboard!

The extension of the bounty campaign is due to the extension of the deadline for ICO because projects cannot collect the minimum amount of fees required. What do you choose:
1. The end of ICO and the return of funds to investors and, accordingly, 0 payments to bounty hunters.
2. Extension of the deadlines for the ICO and the bounty campaign, and even belated, but paying awards for bounty hunters?

In some companies, you can remove the signature, and earned activity will remain, but it is necessary to check with the managers of the bounty. Well, if this experience will spread to all companies, and so now really a lot of companies extend the bounty, as projects collect little money.

Bounties not ending when they should isn't even the only problem. The major problem is ICOs refusing to honour the bounty terms after the ICO has ended. I know a number of bounties that are yet to pay bounty hunters with no reason and others slashed their allocation, some by more than 50%.

I think this can be solve immediately your problem if you directly contact with the bounty manager if you want to quit the said campaign, explaining your side and make some favor to reserve your stakes until the end of the campaign. Which most of bounty managers will consider with this situation in the fields of participating project which  bounty hunters always want an opportunities.

Whenever an ICO is extended,  it is bounty hunters that suffer most because the time for performing tasks will be extended,  meanwhile,  the tokens they make will be reduced because more people join these projects later. I believe bounty hunters suffer a lot.

Changing the rules of any campaign bounty during its implementation is bad. However, if the rules indicate that the rules are subject to change, then the project acts honestly.

Yeah, you are ttoaly right. I have seen some campaign extend for 40 days then 10 more, then 20 more and at the end the bounty hunters had to follow the campaign for 80 or even 90 days. That is really way too much effort for some coin that could just never be received (yeah, some bounty campaigns are just plain scams). Let's hope for a more "regulated" environment in the future for bounty hunters and ico as well

It has really been a kind of mixed feelings for now. Sometimes you wonder why a bounty campaign will end, and even after a month, you hear that participants cannot remove signatures. Sometimes, they even deliberately leave the campaign spreadsheet without updating it so that you have no choice than to leave the signature on.

I think even the best projects are having a hard time or waiting for the market to enter the bull season again. That's why they want to postpone the continuous sales date

The dishonesty and postponement of bounty campaigns indicate problems with the development of the project. Therefore, it is worth exploring in more detail its perspectives, and perhaps abandoning support of unreliable team.

I continue to participate in various bounty. But for a stable and profitable work in this area, it is necessary to take into account two main rules - carefully choose suitable bounty with good potential, you also need to carefully study the established rules of the project.

if that is the rules of the bounty then dont apply because those team specially the bounty manager has their own rules, there are some bounty campaign that has a rules if you want to leave then send a PM to the bounty manager, that is the campaign that you should look if you dont want to be trapped by the rules.

if the project delay or ico is unsuccessful it often happens, and that kind of thing is our risk of finding a job.
because we also cannot only depend on one project

actually there so be a reason for that if the project development team has not allowed the prize participants to delete their signatures. I think this might be influenced by market prices because the targets they want to achieve do not go according to plan then bounty hunters have not been able to remove the signature and extend the campaign.
 

yes, if the campaign is extended there are additional tokens for the campaign and those already running are calculated according to stake allocation and calculation of token income for each participant, while additional campaigns start from the beginning and additional funds become a reference for new participantsthis will be fair for old participants.

That's right, bro, with your opinion, there are a lot of extended projects that make us bored, but in my opinion this project is waiting for crypto market prices to stabilize again, given that market prices are now falling and bad,

yes, I experience that things too, but I understand the situation because the manager told their participants to wear the signature until the final calculation of the stakes and after two (2) weeks he allowed to removed the signature.

Based on my personal observation its one of the protocol in joining bounties.

Don't you think you need to be careful when you join a campaign like before joining you must have the knowledge of the project that you will support it like being loyal to it?
The impress of the team is that you have read about the project which you are willing to promote because you understand the project so if you get out of the campaign, I think it means you are also don't trust whether the project will succeed. The campaigns rules I think also say not quitting fro mthe campaign unless you are prepared to lose your stakes.

I am fully convinced that the implementation of bounty programs is of great importance for projects and investors. Therefore, I regularly take part in promising projects. But you need to remember the possible risks - therefore, you should carefully consider the prospects of the project.

Let us say we are already on that risk thing but is it worth to just get stuck to their campaign until the end date? It sounds like a prevention or to force them to work even if the campaign was already ended just because they have to wait for the end date.

For me, I have no problem with that as long as the manager will give a valid reason to restrict most participants to leave without payment.

I think its alright if we remove signature code if we want but yeah sometimes we stuck because of the bounty that so long to update the stake even the bounty is finish. That's why much better to find a good one so even the bounty is too long its alright because we can get a good reward.

I believe that participation in the bounty is a promising opportunity for a stable additional income. But for this you need to carefully consider the choice of suitable bounty projects to avoid fraud and unsuccessful projects.

You need to understand that there are many different bounty programs on the market today. And they all set their own rules, which participants must learn. Unfortunately, there is a risk of changing the rules in the middle of a bounty campaign, so I recommend choosing a reliable project with a good development team.

You cannot predict the project, in the beginning, you just have to wait for it and after that, you getting a deep understanding of the project. Although now many good projects have included these rules and consistently extending the campaigns date.

I agree with you, being a bounty hunter we should choose a good bounty that can achieve their target goals with their solid team and project application. Unfortunately, the market situation has been the big factor with this problem about ICO as no investors will take a risk in a worse market situation. Hopefully next year all of this will back to normal.

But now there are many projects that look good and will grow quickly with a good team and eventually end up scamming too, I am very dizzy to choose what kind of project, which makes me hurt is the most cheater, bro. because the market effect is not stable, there are no investors and the project fails