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Recently, I just had this bad experience with a bounty campaign I joined (Vanta to be specific). They've extended the campaign, added some task, and threatened participants that they'll not get all the bounty rewards if they won't participate. I raised my concerns to the bounty manager and I was quite disappointed with the response.


To all fellow hunters, you may want to ask this questions to your bounty managers before joining a campaign:

1. Bounty campaign extension
- Will the team ask for an increase in the bounty pool?
- Will the team close the registration and allow only those participants prior to extension?


2. ICO team inserting rules after the campaign
- Will the team allow ICO teams add rules like exchange voting and require hunters to participate?
- What would be the bounty team's response if ICO teams would withhold the bounty rewards to force hunters to participate?


These questions might help you understand how strong the bounty manager is when it comes to protecting its group of bounty hunters.

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Disclaimer: I've also posted a similar topic in other forums I'm into. In case someone checks my post for plagiarism

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It's a good approach to ask but most answers you'll get are lies to get more bounty hunters or just the response 'wait, we can't say it yet, it will be announced 'soon''. Joining a bounty is always a risk of being scammed for the time and the majority of projects don't follow their own rules.

Bounty hunters can ask that question the bounty manager to make sure the requirements ia good so it will help for them to decided if they join or not.

Edit: Because it's free to ask question and it can help to you to avoid mistake once you are in the campaign if you want to join because mostly the hunters make mistake because they did not fully understand the rules and regulation that implemented by the campaign and manager.

Why not? This is merely asking them how will they respond in case the ICO teams do the above.

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If that's the response, then it is likely that the bounty team are weak and push over.

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Exactly.

Sadly this seems to have become normal for the bounty campaigns. I am personally against the extensions and all the sudden changes and especially change and reduction in rewards but even after provoking the bounty managers in different campaigns the results are not seen may be we need some guaranters to interfere to mark a legit campaign.

the BM of a certain project wont know the answer about the question above the only person has the answer regarding the question is the team behind it, and the rules can be modify anytime by the team.

This is because they always add that in the rules like bounty team has the right to change any thing so you agreeing by participating on it so you need to accept what they are demanding or else don't join on those bounties.

Very few campaigns will be managed directly by the team itself, those teams can provide answers for this questions. Most of the campaigns were managed by campaign managers who will be paid by the team. They'll be doing what's insisted for them by the team.

It should be on the rules, and as it always there, they have the rights to change it. prior to ICO!



The first thing to say is the time and work is the problem if you will leave, but it is always on your side and decision!
You can't ask them as it is already stated on the thread. though if you do and they answer then you are lucky!

I am aware of that golden rule "team has the exclusive right to change...."
Same reply to a similar comment - this is merely asking the BM how they will respond to such event.

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It is sad. I've started asking already some bounty teams and some of them are already taking measures to protect their hunters. I hope we start to see BM's raising these issues before working with these ICOs.

the majority bounty manager is paid by the team from the project, and it depends on the team's decision, indeed the question is very good and has a high level of question, but if things don't want it all depends on the project team

Yes, that might be an annoying thing if the project is extended. I think they have problems in raising funds. This situation is certainly not convenient for bounty hunters because the rules have been changed. Managers do have the freedom to change rules. But you also have to think about the fate of the bounty hunters who have helped this project.

These are good questions. I might ask the bounty groups that I am into before participating in the campaigns that they run. It's better to know the position of the bounty managers from the very beginning.

My experience with two recent bounties is not so good.
One bounty got ended early and that also with reduced rewards and one bounty got extended for four weeks.
In both cases there was a statement from bounty manager that they are just managing the bounty please and all decisions are from ico teams where they can not influence it.
Day by day the trend is increasing and we have to be careful about it.

Lol
Asking the bounty team is not going to help
Except you want to find out basic information like bounty timing and the rules and terms

There is no shame extending a bounty for more coupe months, i t happened to me more than once & it's just fine as long as the project is legitimate. I got paid for doing 1 year bounty last couple days & other bounty is finished months ago & their tokens will be locked for bounty hunters for 12 months, so it's normal as long as there is enough transparency about it.

Finally did you receive the reward from that bounty campaign?
I don't see a criminal in adding new tasks but only for new participants that connected after new rules implemented

I think the manager is doing everything he says. I do not think that they tend to protect hunters. If their reward is high they simply follow the terms of the project.

You forget that at the beginning, when the bounty campaign is launched, there is always one rule - the bounty campaign rules can be changed at any time. As the ICO team decides, so it will be,the bounty Manager is not to blame here,almost always he is the same employee as we are with you. Until the regulation of ICO by the state authorities begins, I think such topics are useless.

Maneger is only worker not owner of the project, maneger has no power to protect the gifted team from fraud, maneger has information that is limited by the project team, and all sudden changes often occur from the project team without giving prior notice

i do not think that the various bounty managers are informed before about the real intentions of the team of the icos, however now is almost an unwritten rule the extension of the ico for a few months because they all plod and can no longer raise enough money, instead is write it since beginning that the rules can change at any time, the only way to protect yourself in some way is ask that the bounty tokens be transferred at the beginning of campaign at an escrow

As far as I know if the bounty manager is not part of the team then all the changes will be coming from the core team so don't blame the bounty manager as they just following the order of ICO owner but I think they also have some responsibility to clear issue like these with the team to avoid confusion on the bounty participants.

Most of these ICO is a scam that's why bounty hunters should ask a question first whether they have to add something at the end of the campaign. It is being practiced in most ICO to add/change some rules after the campaign is over. Although, there are trustworthy bounty managers but you can barely count them unlike to those newbies manager.

If I am in your position, I will not participate again and choose to leave the bounty. By force, it has become an indicator that they only want to commit fraud and use all those who participate in their bounties to promote their fraudulent projects.

In most bounties, I  think the rules of participation are explicitly spelt out to everyone who wish to take part. Sometimes, such concerns as raised are legitimate questions to ask but you may not always get the right answers from bounty managers. Mostly, changes are made by the team behind the project and not the bounty manger.

Its now in the nature of bounty managers to go back on their words and fail to fulfill their promises.
It's either they're extending dates,reducing rewards,delaying payments etc
Verifying,by asking all this questions would change none of this, even if they give positive answers initially,they could still come up with one excuse or the other and ask for understanding and patience
I think the only way this can be stopped is if some sort of legal action can be taken against managers who back down on their initial words

I like these questions but from what I noticed recently from a certain bounty I am doing is that sometimes these changes are not the fault of the bounty manager, sometimes they want everything to be as it were from the beginning  of the bounty but due to unforeseen circumstances, the rules are meant to change,  so I think the bounty manager might not be able to give adequate answers because the project just started.

Correctly. You have to analyze some points and be sure to ask questions to bounty managers to find out all the points. This will help to make an objective decision.

Before participating in the bounty campaigns, you must make sure that the development team is real people who will not deceive you.
Despite this, the rules may change during the campaign.

I also had a similar issue with a bounty I participated at a particular time he extended the bounty period without reviewing the bounty pools and all the efforts in  allowing those who want to quit were met with deaf ear, and he is threatening non payment of token to those hunters that defies his order its was a bad experience but I had to move on.

I don't think honestly that asking this questions about the campaign from the bounty manager will make a difference. They can still tell you NO to all the questions but still add them in future of the bounty campaign.

I don't think these questions will be helpful. Because most of the bounty campaigns depend on the progress of the token sale. Right? For the bearish crypto market, ICO projects are facing many obstacles to reach the soft cap! Without soft cap means all the hard work, time is worthless, right? So, 90% of ICO projects are extending their sale to make the soft cap!

So, Bounty campaigns depend on the project's decision. I am doing VANTA bounty too, they told bounty hunters to trade VNT token to get the bounty reward. So, this is not the bounty manager's fault, he did not know about this competition, therefore, if you follow these instructions then you will get your bounty payment with extra bonus token.

When I have ample time, I usually do check and visit.the bounties section and there is one particular rule at the very end of their threads.

That particular rule says that the bounty rules might change anytime and the bounty manager is just the one that manages the campaign and counts post. From the very beginning when you want to join a bounty, learn and research about that project.

Such thing are under the guidance and prerogative of the bounty team and we should be updated to their terms because from time to time they could change the rules and it depends to them, we should be openly open for changes, I know being a participant is hard but we need to adapt for possible changes.

The bounty managers most times are ill informed about the project plans for its marketing that is why they continue to reel out more rules as the campaign progressed based on information received from ICO team.

You recommend in the beginning to ask the bounty manager about a lot of things but the reality is a lot of bounty manager (I don't know this desire of the ICO team or the desire unilaterally by the bounty manager) change the rules and differerent from the early rules. We as a bounty hunter sometimes, such as stuck and even if we protest sometimes a lot of bounty manager is not a professional who actually ban people with a lot of questions. But if we have a lot experience of bounty,we already know the characteristics of many bounty manager. So if we already have bad experience with that bounty manager its better don't follow him anymore.

It is because if your late experience with the bounty, that has made you to be able to come up with these questions. There will still be more questions, because some team will also come up with other things. Most times, the bounty manager is not usually aware of these developments, which us why it is always being stated that rules might change.

Some bounty managers has terms and condition like this "we have the right to change any rules", We have nothing to do about it. If there is nothing like this is done and they change suddenly you can archieve the site here (https://archive.org/web/) and fight for your rights. About the extension its good to earn more tokens but if allocation does not increase maybe not. The common rules ico team implement after the campaign is KYC.
There is nothing to worry if the project is legit it also minimize and eliminate cheaters.

for now almost all bounties have rules that can change at any time, depending on the needs of the team.
sometimes we as bounty hunters are not valued when participating from the start and offer their projects.
This is the reality that exists today, if you agree to follow the rules, but if you can't, you can just leave the project.

That is unfair if you are saying the truth.
If they want extension all of a sudden then they should still pay the stakes that were given to certain bounty hunters who will not participate for the extension.

They should have just given a certain bonus for those who will participate until the end of the extension for the bounty hunters to stay in their program. That way it could be more inviting to them instead of leaving.

Even if the team answers these questions,it does not guarantee that it will be able to fulfill all promises. Moreover, the rules usually always write that the conditions for the bounty of the company can change at any time.

All bounty hunters who are working now in the bear market should assume that the bounty deadline will be extended. Very few are reaching the softcap and if you get paid at the end of it you should consider yourself lucky

This kind of behavior can be considered scammy. The rules cannot be broken by either side.

I believe that on their part this is a very unworthy attitude to bounty hunters, I think you should not trust this project.

I think. that no bounty manager will answer all these questions, most likely they will use their standard phrases and avoid answering.

Even when you ask these questions stated, you might get an answer or not but that won't stop them from changing rules. They will say, after all, it's stated that team has the right to change rules at any point.

Since the reason why we are hired as bounty member is that because the company is only getting started. Bounty managers will not be able to answer the questions at first since it is the company team members who really knew about those kinds of rules.

As a startup company, they are still at the stage of developing and changes in rules may really apply. Joining a bounty is like betting your effort and time without making sure that you will win. There are always a lot of chances that you will be scammed and so on. But as a bounty hunter, we are actually betting so we have to at least make sure not to waste our time by analyzing the project if it would work, as well.

If it is considered a scam, I think all bounty here is a scam. They always change every rule when the campaign ends and makes the bounty hunter receive a lot of disadvantages. I was also the victim of so many campaigns like that

Sometimes an agreement can be changed when ico is finished. some projecks make revised rules or about bounty allocations that have previously been mentioned to be downgraded

You don't have the right to talk about this because in every bounty thread, it is clearly mentioned that they have the right to do whatever they think fair for their project. We have nothing to do regarding this. Better we follow whatever they ask to do. You will not want to lose the effort you already have given.

most of the time, the bounty manager don't know anything about the extension, it will be solely based on the team's decision if they will extend the bounty or not

I agree with you, no one knows that the bounty will be extended or the rules will be changed after the campaign ends, because if they already know for sure they will apply it at the beginning not at the end

True because the extensive comes when the team don't get enough sales in ICO or don't reach the softcap/hardcap. And without this, their project objective will not be successful.

I guess all the information are already provided in their bounty post, we just need to read it carefully because as we all know, if the information is already provided it is unethical to ask it as a question to the bounty manager.

Exactly, changes in bounty are decisions made from project team. And the bonus manager is the only one who makes that request, and they have no right to change any request

Campaign manager cant answer that questions I tjink even the staff cant they are only workers like us if so if the founder wants to increase the bounty pool the manager cant do anything to stop that, but there are some campaigns that is indicated to their bounty that the project will not  add any bounty pool in the future or anything.

Changing the total amount of remuneration during the ICO has become almost a form of fraud for the ICO team. They first lure bounty hunters to join the project with a large amount of remuneration, while indicating that the team has the right to change it, if hardcap is not reached. And since now almost no one reaches it, the team allocates the minimum amount to bounty hunters. At the same time, the overestimated price of their token on the stock exchange falls hundreds and thousands of times, and bounty hunters are left with almost a few dollars.

Extension is something bad for me. For the bounty or for the ICO all of it. If a project would extend dates there should be something wrong with them. Because the ICO projects have their deadlines and they are making statement and it should be certain. In last 1 year nearly all projects choose to make extensions and it would show me that the project have some issues.

it depends . not all those who extend are having issues ( e.g they dont reach thier quota ) there were also some campaigns that are extending becuase they love the result of the campaign  . they already reach thier desired quota and traffic but they want to expect more  .

it also depend on the bounty hunter some like extended campaigns because in thier minds they think that they can earn more while other bounty hunters dont like this because they feel nervous and lazy to continue working  .

Bounty managers are like doctors, they can only give you answers for the now and not tomorrow, that's why bounty hunters are supposed to be patient enough to swallow whatever comes. No matter the tricks you have up your sleeves, remember there is a disclaimer on every bounty that bounty managers have the right to make changes anytime during the course of the bounty

Only few bounty managers work in the interest of his bounty hunters. Most of them will usually side with the team in times of a misunderstanding between a bounty hunter and the team. That is why many at times hunters get cheated and their tokens are not being paid because they have no redeemer.

Agree. Especially when the campaign has the "disclaimer" that they have the right to make changes anytime, we can only obey and accept the terms and conditions. So I think questioning will be useless.

What's the problem is that most of the project team or manager does not know if you would be an extension on announced and do you mostly kept in the dark only the ico team Knows if there will be an extension And they would rather not tell bounty participants untill its too late and even end up locking bounty rewards for 4months and above for no good reason

I think the bounty hunter may ask rules or term of condition to bounty manager. But if you ask question like that they cant asnwer you. You should ask to the team behind it. All changes maybe come from the team BM only follow their order.

Asking about the extension of the bounties to the bounty manager will not help at many times because they are not aware of the sales effectiveness so they will continue to manage and run the campaign until the team ask them to close it.Better join on the bounties run by reputed managers to avoid scams.

Probably you should have not mentioned the project here you can report them on tge reputation section.
Also the question you listed are good ones and might be helpful. But understand something a bad project would always be what it is. Even if you ask this questions you might get an answers that would just lure you in

sometimes, you can ask this. but based on my experience, extended bounty will increase the pool (especially bounty which handled with professional BM)



I guess without forcing bounty participant for voting, they will do it with their own. due the interested for profit from both (Dev and BH).

It's always in the hands of the developing teams and not with the manager itself, but in some points if the manager really attached from the project his holding, might have a good information regarding to the campaign if the team will continue or stop it, he will be informed first to provide information for the bounty hunters.

I also agree to work with well known managers or make your own research about the project before joining.

Even you will ask the bounty managers the question you are posted here they can't give you guarantee that there answers may be applicable once ICO is getting over as we are aware that there are always a disclaimers in bounty rules that bounty managers and admins has the authority to revised their rules anytime they want. And this really give headache to bounty hunters.

Must better to ask first on what the bounty campaign in a future than to participate we don't on what it comes. Even me if i'm participated in the bounty ill go first in the telegram as to them about the project they have and the future of it.

This is one-sided protection that would nebylo pritenzy. This is the oral form of the contract and we cannot do anything about it. It is a pity that sometimes companies refuse to pay hunters.

actually all bounty hunters that have a participation on some uncertain projects on the bounty section had the same experience wherein very dissapointed and frustrated because of that reason when it comes distribution of the rewards. And even though participants provide negative statement to the owner they always ignored it and continue making excuses . However if this issue always occur in some projects then much better to create an article about it or publish a post iespecially here in forum in my opinion m so that everyone can prevent joining such project that always make excuses just to scam investors and bounty hunter.

Yes gather some information from the team but the best thing to do  is to do your own research about the project. because the choice is yours don't depends on what some are saying on the group but make research , because now there are a lot of scam bounties.

Cryptomarket was dip in the long term period we see that. So ICO projects not get enough respond from investors that's why normally team will be decide to coin sale extend. Bounty manager never want to bounty extend it is dev decision. Some project increase bounty pool after extend.

Its normal to revise a rule but its not usual if they modify the rules all the time  because that is considered shady  . 


Why not ?  If they wont answer your queries . that is again considered shady  . 

Lastly ,  there is no point of asking the bounty team before joining their ico because they already laid out all of the infos  that are frequently asked   .

Unfortunately bounty hunters are not protected in any way, and team project can change the rules already during the bounty of the company, you need to be ready for this. In particular Vanta promised more tokens for the implementation of the new task. Nothing complicated, so I support them.

There's no way we would ask such a ridiculous thing. sometimes, the Bounty Manager has provided a pinned message. Moreover, Bounty Manager has nothing to do with the questions you mentioned. Something like that, it's better to ask directly to the ICO Team. The Bounty Manager only answers bounty questions.

the problem is right now if we do not ask the bounty project team, do not join the project carelessly because now there are so many projects that are deceptive or that there are no prizes that we get

True, before we enter a project deeper, you must know about the project first. So you don't regret later if something happens.

Some rules are changed are applied during the bounty, so even the team or the manager will not be able to answer some questions like that. Most bounties end after the ICO and ICO end date are sometimes extended due to not reaching the soft cap or targeted cap during the ICO stage.

I agree with you that we should ask the bounty team before joining because it will help us make good decisions when joining that bounty! For me, I often participate in projects that have reputable managers and their rules are very clear

The team behind the project are the responsible for any changes in the original plan/requirements, the bounty manager is the only one implementing it.

That means in the beginning he/she will never know the plans of the team and is unable to answer the questions of the bounty hunters firmly.

Unfortunately this scenarios are often happening and we are the ones who is suffering from such decision because if you dont follow their additional rules you wont get your rewards.

Those can be use as our guaranty for the future of the bounty, with all the answer that the manager give us, but it won't be that easy to get the best answer from the bounty manager, cos they don't have absolute power to intervene what the bounty would be.

For me it is more important if bounty hunters need to pass KYC and if the token pool is held in an escrow, to protect yourself that you will surely receive your reward.

Yes, I am going to ask bounty community managers before joining bounty, because they analyze project well and can recommend something to me

In terms of bonus expansion, they are unable to do anything but wait for information from the group. If they still want to expand the bounty campaign, keep the bounty pool intact. We still have to depend on them

There was no guarantee until the token will be sending to the escrow address, remember about doing KYC doesn't mean if you will receive your token smoothly dude. I should remind you there was a bunch of platforms have a lot of problem with KYC dude.

Most times, when you ask some sensitive questions, they may not answer you. Their response might even be that, if you are not comfortable with their rules, you should not bother joining. They do this, when they already have so much participants.
The only way bounty hunters can overcome this, is when we area unified in our decisions.

They cannot and will not answer that, for the simple reason that they have no control it's the main developer who will and can give instruction and besides they can change the rule anytime depending on the situation of the token sales, Ico is really a big risk for bounty hunters in the current state.

You should not just join in an bounty, you should have knowledge about the bounty that you are going to join before you participate. You will just waste your time if you will participate in bounty campaign that have poor team.

Yes, to change or add new rules and requirements for the participants of the bounty campaign is not good. But what can you do bounty hunters participate without contracts, all relationships are built on trust. Manipulation from the creators of projects not excluded.

I will ask other people more experienced than me to check bounty and how good it is. At the moment I have several favourite bounty managers and not all of them suggest quality bounties right now

And you think they will tell you the truth on the start, although i agree that some of the decision like bounty extension could pop up and its dependent on how the project goes but something like the lock up of bounty rewards is what baffles me.

they can break their own rules anytime or change even without prior notice, it is already stated in their rules, so if it is up to you join or not it is very important that we have a reputable bounty manager to handle the campaign so they can explain it clearly.

All bounty ico for long-term that they don't expected to extended for sure they will add some bounty pool to advance your wage that you've earned in stakes.

It is always good to research before joining any bounty program because legit people will always give attitude and will progress their development to the next level. If a company has a real team behind the project will help them to get more awareness about the project by spreading the words about their future developments. 

It is good actually, but sometimes there are some bounty managers are ignoring those question that came from the bounty hunters.
They've actually became selective about the questions they want to answer it only. So for me aside from questioning them, it is also quite better if we do our own research in choosing bounty campaign project.

It won't help you either if the rules are changing while the bounty is running,the bounties will get extended normally when the ICO sales are extended so you need to promote it continuously if they have rules like that to get rewards or just skip with the stakes you have earned and find the best bounties if you can.

i think i saw some ico that extend thier token sale but the bounty does not  .  while other dont extend their token sale but they extend thier bounty campaigns because they only want traffic  . they want exposure so that when the coin is listed on an exchange , it can easily gain attraction to potential investors  . most bounty that i join before , are have a fix rules which is good because participants wont get confused  .  those the one that change rules too often are a bit hassle and seems shady .

There are no specific rules in bounty because they might extend the bounty if they didn't reach any hard cap during the crowd sales and i have faced these situation many times. So it is impossible to predict at the beginning of any bounty they will extend according to the situation. Some bounty campaigns will be closed on the specified time limit only.

We all bounty hunters don't really like it but it became a normal thing today. It is so unfair and sometimes bounties are now trying to cheat bounty hunters using their disclaimers that they can change the rules whenever they want to. But I think they will not do that if we are in a healthy market. All that we can blame for all of this is the strict ICO regulations that makes it hard to raise a small softcap.

CHanging rules is not a shady thing,they want to get more exposure about their project but what is important it is they are giving enough compensation for doing extra promotion,because on stake based on calculation the user will normally get from the allocated bounty pool no matter of how many weeks they are doing it.

Of course, I agree with this. The participants of the bounty companies are not protected and are very often subjected to fraudulent actions on the part of many projects, and this aspect in most cases depends on the bounty of the company’s manager and its compilation plays an important role.

It is rare for a bounty campaign to complete on time and raise the required funds to meet their softcap requirements. You should simply assume that the date will get extended so don't join at the beginning, join a campaign around the middle of the campaign

I like your posts but remember that bounty managers only say what they are asked to say, most of them know nothing, so it's just like blind hunters following blind leaders. Haven't you noticed that some projects exit scam even when bounty is still on and the bounty managers. Do your own research

Bounty manager is not to blame here, mate. We follow bounty manager's rules to get stakes/tokens. And Bounty manager has to obey the team's decision. So, VANTA team asked bounty manager to make a new rule to get paid Vanta Rewards! You will be always disappointed by asking these questions at the beginning of the campaign. Because the ICO team needs to extend the bounty campaign to get more investors to gain enough money to reach the soft cap! I suggest you read all those replies here, you will understand these questions are not answerable at the early of bounty campaign.

Knowing things on the first place is really impossible yet rules can be changed either half way but most of the time they do make changes in the end of the campaign thats why as a bounty hunter you wouldnt have any choice but to abide with such changes even how hard or careful you are on knowing everything on the first place.

I am also surprised at the many projects that now often give surprises when the bounty will end by extending the bounty without any additional allocation of rewards for the participants so that this is clearly very detrimental to the participants who have long worked and even more strangely now, it seems became a new trend for projects to reduce / cut the allocation of funds after the last bounty and I see it has happened a lot in several bounty projects in this month.

This is not about blaming the bounty managers. It is about how they will deal with those scenarios I posted in the OP. Surely, they already know things like bounty extension is a possibility and they could have included that in the negotiation before they accepted the deal to manage the campaign.

Would it not be better if you get to work with bounty managers who already have plans for those scenarios and aren't easily pushed around by ICO teams?
 

we should understand as bounty hunters that we still need our esteem. I dont think the right to change rules during campaign include the extension of campaign period but we have thrown ourselves at any change because we believe the forum now has more people that could tolerate such change. Most extension should allow participants to leave campaign without lose of allocated stakes but now they lose everything even if they have spent a whole year.

See we keep on talking these things from many days but still, we don't see any changes in bounty rules. Even after many specifications from the bounty participants either from the companies and bounty manager will work according to their situation. They will change rules according to their wish and they can easily extend the bounty campaign.

This is the saddest part that's why we don't have any choice but to abide with it or else you wouldn't have any stakes in the last part.
Even if they do stick out on their rules from start to the end and then when the time of distribution comes they do suddenly cut out pays or make delays
according to their likes which do really sucks.

that sucks but you must do it if you really want to earn free cryptos  because there are no easy way here  . everyting here must be done on a step by step process which will require patience and hardwork  . bounties are hassel compare to other micro task such as airdrops or sig campaigns that pays per week    . you should have understand that before dedicing to join one  or if not , you can try other jobs like those two that i described above  .

Neither which way as long you would potentially earn but I do always preferred anytime on earning bitcoins and other valuable alts doing task rather than doing bounties without having some assurance of their value in the end yet we know that most of them do end up on a graveyard or doesn't have any value at all in the end.
Its your choice though yet bounty hunting is somewhat like a gamble.

It is our freedom to ask anything before joining the bounty campaign. Now if they didn't answer your question properly, its your choice if you are going to continue to apply or not. But if that happen to me I won't join anymore if they didn't answer my query, though sometimes they have rules that they can change rules any time they want.

That's why some of the bounty has a telegram channel exclusive for bounty only so participants can ask different questions they want to know.
It's important that the managers are transparent in running the bounty so participants would know the potential income they will make and of course the potential of the project to succeed.

Bounty managers are also necessary to have the knowledge about the project he is promoting so he can echo the message coming from the team.

all rules are in favor of the bounty manager that they have the right to change all the rules if necessary and disqualify the participant without notice,
so before joining the bounty we must analyze the bounty project by looking at the progress of the project to what extent their success.

Asking the team before joining the campaign project is the good thing that we must do always as a bounty hunters, so that nothing's to be blame in the end but ourselves. Besides, before we ask in the bounty thread the answer was already in there to their general rules, which is they have the rights to change without further reason.

I think it's a necessity to ask before joining as it will help to avoid most of this post coming up of Campaign extension and others that might come up and the rest

The problem with bounty teams is that they are all 3rd party people, managing bounties for other teams, and possibly even managing several bounties all at the same time.

They do not really care about what the project will decide, as long as they eventually get paid. Very few people really care about their so called communities.

Another phrase that could be a cheat is their early claim that the 'campaign rule could be changed any time', so if it could be changed what else are we sure we cam hold on to? I still beleive a bounty manager that seek the confidence and trust from his participants will try to satisfy them with the agreed reward.

Well if that was told when or before campaign started it's fine IMO, since all bounty hunter who want to join have read the rules first. If they are decided to join and in the end of campaign they got cheated by that rules, it's their own fault. If they don't like that rules, don't join it.

Not all bounty hunters do  really read up bounty rules anytime and i can attest to that.They would just complain in the end when theres such changes happen.
We can understand if the said changes arent affecting the pay distribution date but most likely this is the main issue where most projects do give of.
You can ask on early phase but if the team didnt get their expected results then the next step is on giving out bounters to have a headache.lol

We cant really deny that if we do read up anytime those ANN titles having some billions and millions allocated token on their bounty campaign does really spark out some interest as a bounty hunter and i can say such thing yet i had experienced on looking up these numbers when im still a newbie.Even now we can see displaying out $1,xxx,xxx or more just to lure in advertisers.Its been part of their marketing strategies but talking about success rate its still unknown thats why bounty hunting is some sort of gambling.

If the bounty manager isn't one member of the team (which is the case for most bounty campaigns actually), even asking him such questions wouldn't help the hunters, since he is just a hired worker and don't know if the campaign will be extended or not, and even some of them don't know if the project itself is legitimate or not.

Most of bounty manager on altcoin bounty only looking to get paid, they don't even care whether the site or ICO or project is scam or not, but there are also few managers who checked the site and anything else (are they legit or not) before take the job (ex yahoo62278).

Yes, every manager should do their duty before publishing the bounty ANN, they have the right to ask the company about their activities because it will really help the bounty manager to increase his reputation in the market. Very few managers are doing their job in the right way.

Even if you asked these questions and get a satisfactory answer, there is no guaranty that they will not change the rule, because almost all bounty managers can change the rule anytime to the advantages of the campaign.

I have asked one bounty manager that there will be no KYC and he says yes, only to change later that they are now implementing KYC because of the very old alibi of bounty hunters cheating.

But some of the bounty managers are part of the projects and even if they are working independently, they have no control if the developers change their rules, when running a campaign there are no exact rules, they change it to suit their campaign needs at a given time, you will just get disappointed if you think they are not going to change the rules.

We should have more of that kind of bounty manager, bad manager are also one of the main reason why there's a lot of scams in the market.
As a bounty manager, he has a clear communication to the team than the participants, so he should make a research before accepting the job.

Bounty manager should work like an exchange in the IEO set up where they evaluate the project first before they will accept listing for IEO in their site.

There are only few of them. Yahoo (as i mentioned earlier), hhampuz, and few others managers who always evaluate any of ICO before accept their offer. But there are rarely case when ICO seems turned into scam in middle of campaign, that's where those managee decided to continue the bounty or stopped  it before all participants got rekt