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I have read a lot of people claiming that the rank or online personality of the bounty manager can help in knowing the or determining if investing in a token project will be worthwhile. I must tell you I was of the opinion until this morning when I learnt about the incompetence of a bounty manager I used to follow. Remember most of us don't know each others beyond our online profile. I learnt he will be managing more bounty after he left his old profile to embrace another one.

Although, he's not tainted as fraud yet because my source won't say if he is. But the issue is if he is to fraud unsuspecting newbies, that how he will do it. U believe u can trust him base on his forum rank and experience. But he is fake who has series of identities for his guise.

So, don't join a bounty or invest in a project because of the bounty manager. Do your research before investing your money or time on any project.

Bounty manager truly does not determine
But bounty manager do have an effect; nobody joins a bounty manager with failed projects
Which is why g0blin has not gotten any bounty job since the mess of the spotcoin bounty

Be smart and dyor

You need to research on your own and can't depend on other's choices. Though what you could generalize is any projects approaching a reputable bounty manager are serious in their work and are spending a good deal of amount just to run the bounty smooth. And there are perks for bounty participants for joining a bounty managed by reputed managers.

Ranks of bounty managers does not determine the legitimacy of a bounty project so I really don't pay much concern on what rank the bounty manager held. I have been in bounties where a high ranked member was the bounty manager and the project turned out to be a big scam.

It will not and cannot be determined but I stay away with bounty managers that have a lot of failed or scam projects attached to its portfolio, it just means he is not doing enough research and cannot fight the rights of bounty managers, so better make a list of bounty managers who always screwed up and stay away from them.

Yeah bounty manager didn't really give effect for the project it self, its pure depend on the project and their team only. But Bounty manager with good reputation for sure will attract more investor and bounty hunter its self.

There’s a big difference on that but at least you have a small guarantee that the project is good if the bounty manager is trusted. The manager can’t also tell how good the project but its there job to work with a decent project to protect their reputation, there’s a lot of good manager before who got the negative trust by working with a scam project, i know you saw some of that manager.

Bounty manager as a Legendary member with many positive feedbacks that holds all bounty tokens on his wallet is the most trusted way how to secure your payout from the bounty campaign.  :)

Most of the bounty managers out there know how to promote the real project and they don't want to make their names look bad by blindly promoting bounties that don't have legitimacy. The managers that don't care about legitimacy often receive bad consequences from the DT members and mostly get tagged.

For the bounties that don't pay their participants, managers always reminding bounty participants that whatever happens with the project is not their concern, they've done their part by carefully inspecting it. and if the project owner doesn't give anything to the bounty participant, that's not the problem of managers, the problem is with the owner, cheating and scamming their own people who promote their project all these times.

Like for example HowDoo. this is a legit project but they didn't pay their bounty participant after the bounty is done. and that makes them automatically a scammer and the manager managing it has nothing to do with their scamming. the fault is on the HowDoo team. until now I didn't get anything from them. but I don't blame the manager because he is not the one who pays us. that HowDoo team is the one to blame.

Absolutely correct! If someone is investing in ICOs just because the bounty is managed by a reputed member, he is making a big mistake. Bounty managers can't determine if a project is a scam or not!

However, a reputed bountry manager will always do his own due diligences before accepting a bounty management request. A reputed member would never want to be associated with a fake program. Also a reputed bountry manager usually means that the bountry participants will be paid in time! That's what matters for the bounty hunters!

Those who carefully research the project before starting to manage the bounty campaign, of course, are good managers. At the initial stage it is not always possible to understand whether the project is scam. This is a difficulty for all of us. It often becomes clear when some time has already been spent.
I remember only two cases when the bounty manager stopped (& announce it) the bounty campaign earlier, having discovered that they were scammers. Usually manager just stop campaign without notice.

I always look for paid managers who can analyze the project ahead, so as not to waste time, a professional manager will choose projects that are bargained by the team always selectively first.

Of course, because many Bounty Managers get paid to run a bounty. However BM with good reputation and many successful campaigns in the past will ensure a lot of bounty campaigns that you participate in. That's why the bounty of those BMs is always very crowded.

How does it not affect the project at all. If the bounty manager you hire yourself doesn't represent you at all then why did you hire them to begin with. If you have a bounty manager then they are your representative here and whatever they do is basically what your company is doing.

As the whole project you need to check all of your customers, just like if a coder writes a wrong code and just like how a designer has a misprint, if the bounty manager is doing something shady in order to enrich themselves then you need to make sure you fix what the wrong they did and give the bounty hunters the amount they deserve. Even if its just a temporary position the ramifications could be forever and from your early days it will haunt you forever even after years of operation.

This sentence is what I always do when I want to participate or if I want to invest in a project. Because crypto is no guarantee that it can benefit even the manager or the other. it all depends on you, you do it yourself whether the project is good or not.

The reputable Bounty Managers all choose projects very carefully, even video calls to agree on the project. So choosing such BMs can guarantee you a good bounty to join. Of course you need to do your research, but I'll based on BM to save my time.

There is no sure fact that bounties managed by higer ranking members are real than those managed by lower ranked members.
But I would rather take my chances with a bounty managed by the higher ranking members than those managed by lesser rank

Not all have the same issue.
Some of them are very strict with the applications of users here. Whatever rank you are.
Also, about the legitimacy of one project. If you are to keep your good profile ranking here then it is a must to look for the background of the project.
Again, some of them does this and some of them dont which aims just for the money and not for the features of the project.

How can you prevent it or keep yourself safe?
Then do your own research. You dont just rely on what the manager said or his trust rating. Go way beyond that by doing a deep analysis about what you will support or invest with.

for investment I better invest assets in projects that do not have a bounty, and to choose bounty indeed if we can be mistaken and for rank is not a guarantee because there were lots of BM with hero-legendary ranks but they cheated with prizes from participating participants bounty and not share it with prize participants

Can you please share with us who's the Bounty Manager you talking about?
To be honest, the Bitcointalk Rank is not a guarantee of a project or Bounty Campaign.
To be made ONE OF the considerations MAY be possible, but NOT ALWAYS.
Keep doing deep Research and Do With Your Own Risk

Bounty manager gives nothing to the result of bounty until this manager implements the verification to the ICO before it wanna manage it and it can't be trusted. We have learned a lot about that and it looks like more education about that is needed by a lot of bounty participants.

Yes, you are right about that and statements on this thread, if the bounty manager is reputable it doesn't mean that it will be successful. Well, it may lessen the risk but still there's a high risk in doing so. I was one of the victim of HASHCARD, does anybody know them? It was managed by needmoney - which is one of know manage that turns into a scammer as well wherein previously joining their campaign was profitable so when I see hashcard which is good I believed that time, me and my friends invested but suddenly in just an instant our savings were gone!

Most bounty manyaher don't care if bouhtyy participants are paid or not provided they have got their own payment, the welfare of bounty hunters is not their priority, using manager rank or experience as criteria in selecting bounty is wrong and could be misleading.

If what you mean is they are good in promoting bounty projects, I would agree with you. But if what you are really saying is most know how to promote real projects? Not really. There's only a few of them. I'm not sure how you can say that so easily, I guess you have not joined a lot of bounties yet managed by different campaign managers.
 

some knows, some may not.. there are bounty managers that taking only the advantage of being paid for their service..

Bounty managers are most times employees, their only stake is the amount agreed upon which they will be paid. As long as they pay them they continue to do the job, it's not their business if the project is legit or not except those who feel they have an integrity to protect.

It depends on the character of the bounty managers, we all know that many bounty managers are competing with each other, they would sometimes get a project that is considered high risk,  just to get more projects in their portfolio or to get more jobs, of course, they put disclaimers on their participation, to keep them in a safe side.

That is one of the factor when you start to join bounty program or investing. The bounty campaign manager especially a member of this forum who are used to handling bounty campaigns and have a good reputation in this forum.

I have oftentimes to see bounty campaign manager of this forum (reputable manager most of them are have a high rank) decided to cut/stop the bounty program because the project has cought having a fake team identities or anything else which is not in accordance with the facts.

Based of that I believe bounty manager who have a high rank and was trusted by many people of this forum can make investor or bounty hunters comfortable. But I guess it is only for avoiding scam projects, it does not ensure investors and bounty hunters get multiple profits.

I disagree with this, there are low ranking bounty manager who pulled of some succesful projects. Take notice those legendary member who has red tags. Why the hell, they become one? Any bells ringing? Its not about the rank but the integrity and honesty of the BM. Even, the campaign Ive joines now is a new BM, I cna sense the potential and the integrity of him towards this project.

Bounty managers don't determine the legitimacy of any project(s) because almost all of them are just hired and not part of the core team that is saddled with strategic planning and decision making.

A bounty manager can only try in analysing the project to convince himself/herself and those working with him (bounty hunters) that such project can be trusted(which of course is not certain)

It is not that easy to determine if a project will become a scam or not. There are a lot of key indicators to be taken into account: Whitepaper, team experience, milestones, social media activity etc.

However,  it's hard to predict if the project will develop as per Whitepaper or if it will just vanish when the soft/hard cap is reached.

We have special bounty managers in crypto space not because they introduce only good bounty projects but because of their sincerity with their work,that's what makes them special yet they can introduce fake projects unknowingly,its bounty hunters duty to investigate before promoting any project

Good bounty managers will always tell participants to always do their own research before joining any his bounty because some fake projects are very tricky to detect so no matter how good the bounty manager is hunters should do their part as well

While investing we have to be very careful and can not rely on bounty manager's rank, as our hard earned money is on stake.
Since, it's efforts which will be wasted if project turns out to be scam later, will not affect much.
I have seen very rare cases where project turned out as scam whose bounty was managed by high rank bounty manager.
So it's possible.

Thats true, its not about how populer or how good reputation of that bounty manager , but all success depend on how good the team and the project it self , so whenever you wanna do invest, the best way don't ever do invest unless you check by your self

According to the experience that I have faced myself, I used to rely on a bounty seen from who the bounty manager held it, because usually a good bounty manager would definitely only receive a good bounty and be trusted. and first the bounty manager always uses his personal account which is indeed used. but for now this is not what I see, because most bounty managers use new accounts and finally when the bounty isn't running we can't find who can help solve it.

There are some bounty managers that has an ability to scan the project first and if there are some essential things that they missed for the project they will let the team know it and if the team wont make any changes then they wont accept it because they are caring their reputation as a good bounty manager.

You are right to some extent, I use also use to believe that a bounty manager determines a good project until I recently realized a BM I have been following with a Hero rank that almost all the project he handled that I joined all turned out to be waste of time but there is another with a member account that I recently started following all her 4 projects that I joined has paid me massively. So that's why I said you are right to some extent

The rank of the bounty manager does not determines the legit of the project. I know a manager with over +12 positive trust that his last 3 project were full-time scam. From my empirical experience, i have come to realize that the rank of a does determines good projects. I do my research before investing or promoting. 

Most if not all will never determine the legitimacy of a project they are managing, most of them careless about the end result if the said project in as much they have been paid in BTC or ETH. I had participated in some bounty campaigns which where been managed by Legendary accounts and even as a forum staff, at the end of the bounty, the said project disappeared till now while some has no value on  my wallets.

Its depended from bounty manager.
Some managers only earn moneys, they dont think what will be with project and hunters, and they recieve payments in eth, not at projects tokens

I don't agree with you in terms of not joining the bounty because of the manager. Research is indeed very important if you want to join the bounty, but the manager is also one of the important aspects in joining the bounty.

I have not participated in a lot of bounties but I can tell you that there are different managers and it seems to me that the bounties what they manage depends on their personality.

I have noticed that some managers do their homework and check the legitimacy of project but others do not care. For example I think that one of the big managers have very low standards, i Noticed several projects which seem extra shady from this particular manager : btcltcdigger.
I am not saying that others  are better but this one caught my eye.

If the track record for not scam projects is good for bounty manager then it is a good way to tell if the bounty will be a good one.

I agree with you on this issue. There was a time when I only looked at the rank of a manager and did not consider the project completely. That caused me a lot of losses in my time and effort.
But for now, everything is different, we should choose projects managed by some reputable bounty running groups like Wapinter bounty, Bounty Cloud.

It does not always mean the bounty will be good because of the manager but a decent manager will make sure that the project is legit. Or at the least to try to pick good ones that are less likely to be scams.
Other managers will accept any work just for pay. We must take note of what managers support what so we know for the future who to stay away from.

There are people who do make this thing as a basis when searching up for a new project depending on the success rate or paying up

campaigns that they do handle.Its not a solid thing to consider or making it as a factor with your selection but sometimes this thing works because
there are managers who are really keen on selecting projects to be handled.

You are correct mate, most of the managers don't even care or careless for those who pit more efforts in hunting for bounties, some of them are concern for the payment they will receive from the team project and never look into the legitimacy of the said project. Sometimes, even investigating the project is a matter of unconcern to them.

yes, it is true that ranking is not a complete guarantee for us to trust the project they manage, but we ourselves must research before joining the ICO project. I personally prefer to spend time researching before joining the project and if by chance the gift manager is ranked high, and the project they manage in my opinion is good, of course I will consider it again.

Bounty managers do not determine the legitimacy of a cryptocurrency project and never will be able to do so. Many newbies think the ranks of bounty managers are all enough to prove the legitimacy of a bounty campaign but hell no to that. The legitimacy of a bounty can only be found through a good research on the project, the team behind it, the investors and advisers behind it. This alone is what can help determine the legitimacy not the bounty manager.

Professional Bounty manager will do research and only handling good project. They not only thinking about money/payment but also their credibility. But not all bounty manager like that. Your opinion true,some bounty manager only want payment and not really care which bounty they handling. So basically better we do own research before join.

The rank of a bounty manager has nothing to do with the success or failure of a project or how profitable the bounty will turn out to be. Although bounty hunters find it safer and trust projects handled by experienced bounty manager, however, this does not guarantee its outcome. The project has to be criticized examined to know its viability.

Whoever depends totally on every  project a manage you know of to be good, might end up failing. Yes, they might be managed successful projects, but I have seen several of them managed projects that have failed.
The only thing I have come to see, is that they are always careful not to manage scam projects, which is a plus to them.

i totally agree with this point "So, don't join a bounty or invest in a project because of the bounty manager. Do your research before investing your money or time on any project". I know many great managers but sometime the project which he managed fail. That's means manager has no guarantee of success

That is true for sure, but we can know already if a bounty could be legit if the manger legit too. For instance if you are the investor, and you are totally a newbie, are you then willing to invest your money in some random guy or maybe a newbie account too? I guess not, you look for remarks, reviews of a certain person who is basically an expert of their field and therefore you do your own due diligence, searching if the said project was worth investing. In the first place trusted members are one way to simply know whether the project is worth a try.

Bounty managers should not accept projects just to make some $$, but should always take out time to analyze project and the team behind it and not just do some sweet write up with some frivolous budget. I don't follow managers with bad track records, this is why I have stop participating in bountyhive projects. 

That is, there is no definite benchmark that can be used as a reference for the success of a project. Many things are unpredictable in the Cryptocurrency World. Don't be fanatical on only one indicator, all must be analyzed properly. Moreover, many fraudsters and trying in any way to cheat investors. Experienced bounty managers are sometimes also caught up in scams, which damage their reputation.

I know what it feels like to be lead astray so I never for once rely on a bounty manager to choose bounty projects for me,sometimes bounty managers can be deceived too so i do my own research on project myself

They do not, but still they have a very big role to still play, any bounty manager must ensure that they only promote projects that they have done their own research on too, but it seems we have many bounty managers that does not really care about the project being legitimate or not, they are just after the money, but one thing they fail to understand is that when you pint an accusing finger on someone, the remaining 4 fingers points at you.

If they continue to promote fake and shit project and the ICO space becomes too annoying and full of scam, all investors will run away and even projects will no longer find it interesting to use ICO again, which means they will lose their job too. I don’t rely on rank to job project, I just check the past projects the manager has promoted to check the percentage of successful project he has promoted.

Yes bounty managers do not determine legitimacy of a crypto project but they can do well to mqke adequate research about the project they want to handle bounty for to ensure that its not outright scam. Some bounty hunters just go ahead to collect bounties without any form of research,  but the experienced bounty managers try their best to research about the project before accepting which i think its the best thing to do

Every bounty Manger will wish to still see a lot of persons participate in bounties and his network and community grow, hunters are attracted to bounty mangers that have had a good record of successful bounties, this is why a lot persons consider the reputation of Bounty Manger before joining the bounty, though this is not only what making bounty is based on but it is part of what is considered.

For its a big advantage if the bounty managers wi check the legitimacy of the project they operate to assure that their reputation will be safe and good to bounty Hunters also for investors, as i saw many bounty managers now operating projects even its not good and not legit and the important yhing for them is that they are payed and getting benefits thats my views on them.

Bounty managers have no business with projects they are conducting, they have no business with the team they are just like we bounty hunters,all they do is get their job done and get paid like us,it will be stupid to depend on bounty managers when choosing projects

You are definitely right. Bounty Managers don't solely determine if a bounty projects are scam or not. We need to do our own research to determine whether a project is legit or not.

But I just want to remind you also that there is a big difference between a scam and an unsuccessful project. Good project managers do their assignment and personal research on choosing a campaign but they can make a mistake also on determining which can be a successful one.

That's right a bounty manager doesn't guarantee the legitimacy of any crypto project, but there a couple of manager who more than not we'll never manager a fishy project, That's just an added benefit but shouldn't stop participants from making their own personal findings about a project before working with them.

Most people participate in the ICO project based on who the bounty manager is. This is not wrong because everyone has their own way and trust in the bounty manager who handles the project. Maybe some people will choose to do research on the ICO project regardless of who the manager is, but there is nothing wrong because everyone has their own way.

This is true. 
Most/all of the managers are not experts as far as I can tell.
The few good ones end up derailing due to greed.

I think crypto community desperately needs  a strong blockchain friendly standards every startup has to pass to qualify for funding.  We can then  have randomly selected people who check and score every project to make sure every standard is  passed

No they are not, but my experience shows that there are some managers that are trying to find only legit project and doing their own research before launching a bounty. Thats why I prefer to stick to the managers mostly.

Sometime it's true, but sometime you're wrong. Bounty hunters will not hold tightly to those words, because there are a number of bounty managers who run bounties with a higher level of success, because their rental prices are of course expensive than usual, so it's not arbitrary for people who can afford their services. I have seen and feel it, because I have experienced it.

Well i know that Hunters have favorite Bounty Managers especially those with good records about legit bounties. Some Mangers won't even bother if hunters get paid or project exit scam, they only care about their Money while some take time to research and bring verified bounties. A good bounty Manager should manage at least 70% of good and legit bounties.

As the name goes, bounty manager, that means they are just managers and as such have no say nor will they determine a project that will do well. They are just hired to do a job which they will, so thinking they can determine the success of any project is wrong because they are not super humans.

I know some bounty managers are so blindly accepting any scam campaign without doin any verification and not all of bounty managers are so smart, I can mention some of them right now but it's not good to do that. remember someone that used olcaytu as the name of BTT account has managed so many scam campaigns.
you can see that.

Bounty managers are doing their best to find good bounty because that would be the recommendation for their next bounty campaign if they keep promoting dubious and p[otenaially scam project, then he will surely lose his reputation, there are a lot of bounty managers, who do not do proper research and just want to accept payment, so it's better to always do your own research and don't rely on bounty manager or other investors.

Standing at a certain angle, the bounty manager really doesn't have too many relationships with a project, they even play a very small role for advertising and management and of course, they cannot confirm the legitimacy of a project, they are outsiders, they do not belong to the project. However, it is for ordinary managers, with some famous managers, they have open relationships with a lot of projects, which allows them to have inside information, and they can describe in a very honest way the legal level of a project

Thats the idea, leave mangers with bad antecedent of scam projects. I dont think silon or yahoo ever had a scam project for bounty because of there due diligence through research before managing. Have seen managers with less than 2 bounties this year because they dont consider some of the project good enough to manage. Bubbalex had a long quarrel with windhan project when they started, interesting the project approached him and he declined, he claimed he wont want to soil his record with project is not confident of. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5107372.msg49956741#msg49956741 ) Tell me why wont I consider him first.

As much as I agree with you, I still believe there are some bounty managers who still have integrity to guide bounty hunters right on which project to participate in. This however should not stop bounty hunters from doing their own research intensively. There are projects that as bounty hunters if we do our own research very well, it will be difficult to get scammed. It is also very important to take time to know more about the bounty manager that is recommending some projects for us. We must be sure whether such persons have good records of successful projects they have managed before we can trust their recommendation.

Yep, that's it, there are still a handful of managers who really study the project first before accepting it, because we all know that their reputation is on the line. We have seen lots of bounty managers gets red trusted for accepting project that is really scammy. As some point in time, they have the responsibility to bounty hunters and not be scammed by this criminals. DYOR is just one part of the equation.

       Most of the managers have their own failure of holding a project but a manager that  has have a most number of a successful project will be identified as a good manager because they were also a victim of a such scam in crypto industry .

bounty managers are also one of the four member with much reputation and experience on managing the spreadsheet and picking the quality for a members to promote the project with their experience and reputation they can choose better project but they are doing it for money so we cannot conclude the legitimacy of the project just because of reputation of the bounty manager.

The only difference between bounty hunters and bounty managers is their role, the first promotes while the other manages; none of them can determine the authencity of any project. So some saying that bounty managers determines the how legit a project is, is wrong they are only hired to do a job.

Bounty managers are all human, not bots; so they can make mistakes when they investigate and judge on quality of projects they manage or contacted to manage. Generally, good managers will select among projects having contacts with them to ask them for their managements on those projects. They will obviously choose good, potential, and somehow less likely scam to promote. Their judgements might be wrong, but experienced managers will less likely make wrong decisions, and less likely promote scam projects. In a summary, I think bounty managers do have their own impacts on potential success of projects they manage.

Its part of bounty manager's job to make sure that the project he/she is going to manage is not scam project for reputation sake or else bounty hunters will lose trust in the bounty manager but its better for bounty hunters to do their own research as well and not rely on bounty mangers,some bounty managers dont care

When selecting a bounty company, I do not pay attention to the rank of manager. This is not an indicator of his honesty and professionalism. A bounty manager with a good reputation, albeit with a small rank, deserves more trust.

I participated in many of projects by manager Syllon, but I didn't received a payment for all my works with him. I trust the experience and professionalism of some managers, but I always remember that the bounty manager is the same employee hired by the project's team. Therefore, when choosing a project you should spend your own time to analyzed the project in the beginning, so that at the end of ICO, you didn’t lose your time or money in the failure.

Most bounty managers don't even research on projects they take on. Truly many people do bounties because they feel like the bounty managers handling those projects have some kind of divine intervention that the project would be successful but it's all not true.

I don't think any of g0blin bounties were successful, his method wasn't even cool. I only did his bounties just incase they turned out good. Look at Bountyplatform, they had a lot of failed projects only 3 out of the lots I did turned out well

Being a bounty hunter for sometime can give you out some experience and you would be aware on how scam project works but falling out into projects which you do see like legit one but ending up to be a scam is still on high probability.Projects becomes too real and hardly be recognized as fraud if you dont dig much deeper.
Considering on following bounty managers,this doesnt guarantee anything yet even these manager no matter how good they are on handling people they can point out which one is legitimate.

The authenticity of a bounty a cryptocurrency project is and can never be determined by the rank of a bounty manager. Bounty managers do not determine the legitimacy of a project even though posting of legit projects can have an impact on your work as a manager. Determination of the authenticity of a bounty project is determined individually based on your personal research into the project, the advisors and team behind it, the core investor and how the project manages its social media handles.

You are right, all cannot be measured because only the bounty manager because when the coin enters the market all will not be related to the bounty manager but all will see the potential, team performance and products developed

I do not believe any bounty manager to be the one to determine the legitimacy of a bounty campaign. Determination of a bounty campaign i individualistic and bounty managers do research into bounty projects before posting it to help build their reputation but doing your very own research and drawing conclusion is key in determining the legitimacy of a project and participating.

Most bounty managers are interested in getting some satoshi and don't give a damn like exchanges don't care about the type of project that get listed for IEO, as long as they get paid, it's known of their business. This is why I have taken much to trading than bounty hunting.

Absolutely! If you are joining a campaign that pays in Bitcoin, it does not matter for as long as the payment is escrowed by reputable escrow managers here. But if you are joining a campaign that pays you in altcoins, do not take the manager as the best indicator of legitimacy or success. If I know, many of the managers themselves do not do their share of research before accepting any project. They are contented to get honestly paid regardless of whether the project will be successful or not. A personal research is still the best way to determine whether a project is worth participating or not.

Of course Bounty Manager can not be a guideline that the project managed by him it is a good project.
But we can find out about the project by looking at the Whitepaper and its roadmap.

that's right, the account rankings are no longer important. Our forum is being corrupted by the impostors of the reputation of veteran members.
Now there are quite a lot of scam projects here and so I think we should practice analyzing the projects.
One of those ways is to read the Whitepaper and have an article on how to read whitepaper quickly and effectively.
https://www.hb-wallet.com/post/what-is-whitepaper

I think the reputable and trusted bounty managers are conducting their due diligence on the project first before they accept it, however if the project is bound to fail i don't think the bounty managers can do anything about it. If the project cannot even raise their softcap then bounties will not be paid, I'll just put my trust on the bounty managers that i know because the percentage of getting paid is much more compare to unknown.

There are bounty manager that protects his credibility and there are those who keep accepting as many projects as he can without checking if the project is legit or not, bounty managers add credibility to the overall perception of one project, but it's just one fo the criteria, it will still come down on the project.

I have been involved in this forum since 2017 and I only participated in the project when I understood it.
Bonus managers often manage a lot of projects and sometimes they do not know whether the project is good or bad. The important thing for them is that they are paid in USD.
So, wake up, we should have our own analysis.

That is how it goes with bounties and bounty managers. They come and they go and also with it lots and lots of money from earnings on the bounties. I have experienced so many bounty managers and also have encountered whom I would call constant headaches. They do not listen to your concern or they do not pay you outright. Headache like I said. So now I tend to check the project and the people behind it rather than the bounty organizers.

Nah, rank is not what should be sued as a criteria to know if a campaign is to be trusted or not, what really matters to me is the history of such manager, when I see a project, I first check the history of the manager that promoted it to see if most of the projects he has projected has been successful and has not had much complains from bounty hunters of not being paid, then I can go further to research on the project.

We have some bounty managers that are known for quality, and will never accept to promote any project they are very unsure of or think they will make payment to the hunters. These managers are doing like what Binance is doing before accepting any project to be registered in their IEO platform for people to be a part of the campaign.

Correct. People can buy old account at high ranks, Hero or Legendary members to run their scam projects and their scam bounties too. It is never good choice to join bounties/ campaigns by unknown managers (with their very first campaigns/ bounties); or managers who have negative trusts or active flags.

Most of them are for the money they get for managing that project little to know it is fraud. The best thing to look is not the bounty manager but the project itself and if the one managing it is a good bounty manager then that's good to follow too.

You are right, not determined by the bounty manager of a bounty success, there are many new bounty managers who handle successful projects. even the famous bounty manager failed a lot like wapinter, amazix. we have to research harder to get a project that will be successful later

sometimes we see a bounty manager with negative beliefs but does not allow participants with negative beliefs to join the campaign he is holding. it becomes legitimate. because the manager has their own rules which he made himself, even without the intervention of the developer.

at least professional managers and many of them have better experience. I have never seen a manager just from a rank. If every manager does escrow for payment security, that would be great. For a good project, you will definitely have to research again.

Never trust anyone 100%. There may be many lucky people who have chosen good projects, but this does not give any guarantees that they can make a mistake the next time. Therefore, you should never rely on the choice of strangers in monetary matters.

It is true, but as a bounty hunter you can stick to your beloved manager and reduce the risks of taking part in a fraud campaign. Several managers are doing their own research and try to sort out garbage campaigns to protect their image.

That is typically the main duty of bounty mangers to get hunters for the project, but bounty managers should not only limit their loyalties to those projects alone, their main loyalty should be with hunters who would promote the project because without them , there is no way those investors would know about the project.

Their loyalty too needs to lie with the investors out there, and the only way their loyalty can lie with investors too is for them to do their due diligence on any project they are accepting and then ensure that the project is of a quality one, and would not turn scam at the end, although is difficult for them alone to spot one, but with their help as the first point of filtering the project, then hunters too can do their due diligence, thereby protecting the interest of the investors out there.

I absolutely concur with this point "Along these lines, don't join a bounty or invest into a project due to the bounty manager. Do your exploration before contributing your money or time on any project". I know numerous extraordinary managers however at some point the project which he oversaw fizzle. That is implies manager has no certification of accomplishment

We should not judge any project or ICO because of bounty manager. i have seen many projects managed by good bounty managers turned to be scam or failure. The best example is wemark. It was managed by Amazix. The project was a failure and the team shut down it. So When  making a choice, its our own responsibility to check the details of the project before investing time or money into it.

The legitimacy of a cryptocurrency project is not and cannot be determined by a bounty manager. Bounty managers do their best to post real legit projects in other not to tarnish their image but the truth and honest of the matter is, bounty managers don;t determine the legitimacy of a cryprocurrency project. To determine the legitimacy of a crypto project, a thorough research into the project, the team behind it and their mission is what is going to help you know the legitimacy of the project not the bounty manager.

The bounty manager is not the most important factor to determine the legitimacy of the project, you need to study the project itself carefully regardless of its bounty manager. The quality of the project can show you if it is worth investing money and/or time, or not.
The whitepaper, the team, and the product are the most important things to be analyzed before investing.

Indeed, but i know some legendary members of bitcointalk usually running a legit campaign.
They usually pay the participants in BTC, most of the campaigns are signature campaign.
But we should do our own research about the project without regarding who the bounty manager is.

It will increase the possibilities to pick the right projects to support even it's been handle by low ranks account, everything still depends on how the developing team will succeed, it's not in the hands of the managers as they are also leaning from how the tem will bring good results,they are just there to facilitate and help the team to promote making it sure that participants will do their task in the right manners.

Thank you for your suggestion that before deciding to join, it's better to do research. But in my opinion, a bounty project managed by a trusted manager is far better than the other way around.

I do not even consider bounty managers or look into the manager who is managing the bounty campaign before participating because I personally believe and support the idea that the legitimacy of cryptocurrency project is never determined by bounty managers and even most of them categorically states in their bounty campaign that they are not part of the team and not responsible for whatever happens along the line.

Yeah, we are the one should to determine the legitimacy of crypto project by doing our due diligence.
Our time and our efforts are our responsible, therefore we need to find a real bounty project so our time and efforts won't go in vain.
There are many campaigns running, but there are only few of them are good and legit.

I think there is no hard and fast rule to determine the authenticity of a token. And one should rely on his own knowledge to pick a project. Atleast that way he won't have to blame anyone else if the projects goes down.

Bounty managers hold not the destiny of each project which could affect their integrity down when project failed and boost their confidence when succeeded. They are not exempt of market instability. Everyone can be victim of accusations specially the bounty managers. It is our duty to research before participating in any projects.

Don't feel bad if the Bounty Manager is not introducing a worthy project for you to work on, if HE is introducing you a scam project, it's for the sake of his name. They are paid by doing so, so do you. And bounty hunting isn't as much equal to investing, it is more likely gambling for me.

This is true to a certain extent. But as far as my observations are concerned, there are campaign managers who are more meticulous in choosing their projects, so that they have never been or very seldom linked to a project that ends up a scam or a failure. They are very much unlike the majority of the campaign managers who just accept offers left and right without even spending a little time or lifting a finger to try to know the real score of the project. For as long as they are paid, they will go ahead. So somehow, a certain campaign manager could give us a little idea whether the project is legit or not. But it is not everything.

Bounty manager cannot determine whether the project is good or not in the future. It's just that professional and new bounty managers are certainly different, old Bounty managers with lots of experience will certainly provide projects that they think are good with previous research. Most new managers, will give any project as long as they are paid. That's all that distinguishes it.

An investor should know better than just committing funds to a project simply because the bounty manager has a renounced profile or rank in an online community. The truth is, the online profile was built and can be rebuilt if tarnished or reputation is destroyed so why give advices mostly financial based on  such illusions. if you consider investing in a project, carry out an online research about the project and then give out funds based on your degree of satisfaction on that project.

A bounty manager with a good reputation and track record can actually mean that the project will turn out legitimate and good. But as it is, even human beings can succumb to pressure and disappoint. So let's not base all our decision on the records of a bounty manager alone or their ranks

You must do the analysis of the project yourself. There are several BTT's managers their professionalism I'm trust , but this is not an absolute guarantee of the success and legitimacy of the project.In fact, they are the same employees as the bounty hunters.

It's true bounty manager's don't determine the legitimacy  of a cryptocurrency project but then there are some project bounty you see, you don't hesitate to join because the bounty manager has reputation which he has created, he does research before managing any project, so once you see such bounty manager's you grab their bounties. So to some extent even with our research, we still leverage on the bounty manager's selections.

Agree bounty manager is just person only processes bounty campaign, he only does his own research. Everyone has their own views on a project, so keep doing research so that you are more satisfied, me never join project because bounty manager but always see products offered by project

Bounty Bm most times doesn't determine if the project is actually good or not. Most times, bounty managers don't always get it right sometimes they also always been used by unknowningly advertising a scam project. Have seen alot of project exit scam after running 3 months bounty.

More and more bounty campaigns are managed by ICO teams.
Not like bounty campaigns in 2016-2017 when there were few trusted bounty managers that also were responsible for payments (they held tokens in escrow).

Frankly speaking, bounty managers in no way determine the legitimacy of bounty projects or cryptocurrency project. Though majority of them try as much as possible not to post scam projects in other not to tarnish their image but that alone is not a proof for legitimacy of a cryptocurrency project,  do your own very research and blame no one whatever happens afterwards.

I keep saying this always and will continue to say that bounty managers do not determine the legitimacy of a bounty project even though most of them try as much as possible to post legit projects in other to get good names and not tarnish their reputation. Doing your own research on a project is what it takes to determine the legitimacy of a project not the bounty manager.

don;t you thin we need to know the name of this manger Or you need to report the manager to the appropriate admin here for clarification. the forum has created the trust option in account to assist in alerting the community about managers with bad reputation.  but one thing i know about these managers are that far fewer of them are after their pocket that they abandoned there followers after they have been paid.

There are really times that we consider first the profile of the bounty manager if he had made most of his managed projects successful and is reputable enough. But aside from that, we should also put into consideration the real platform of the project and the staff behind of the project if they can create a successful ICO or not. From this, we will somehow be guided how to choose a good and legit poject before putting money to it.

If the bounty managers are paid for running the bounty campaign, what kind of legitimacy you guys expect in the bear market conditions?
The bounty funds should be locked for the 3 months in order to let the team members know that we have interest in the project development. If bounty hunters transfer the bounty reward tokens to the exchange after reading the listing news, I don't blame the bounty managers. By the way, bounty managers always negotiate with the team and team members are not supposed to answer the questions of each bounty hunter one by one in social media groups.

Well, the bounty manager is no guarantee that the project is successful. I make the manager's bounty performance as a reference, their good work, on time, and good communication make me comfortable, that's all. That makes me more comfortable working with them. Bounty managers who have good credibility will also not choose bad projects after all cryptocurrency is unpredictable, so understand that everything is at risk.

I presume that you are only pertaining to bounty (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=238.0) managers and not signature campaign managers, for me they are different persons. Honestly, I'm about to rage already and rant after I read the title of your thread :D jk.
You are absolutely right for that one. However, first you can't please everyone because we got our own perspectives withthe person we are dealing with and second bounties are source of money after all. People tend to just ignore this fishy stuff because they eagerly chase money. I'm not contradicting you, it was just a real talk :).

Bounty managers are not the determinants of the authenticity and success of a project. What makes the difference is that good bounty managers with exceptional expertise in crypto takes time to study the project and the team before deciding to promote the project. However, the success of the project depends on the team, the structure of the project, the product etc.

so in short it chosing a good manager do really matter  .


still depend on the manager because a good manager can budget the funds given to them by the owner  . he can  hire adequate amount of participant to ensure that the project is well advertise and expose throughout the forum  .  the rest would matter on the quality of the project because promotion is  still useless if the project is shitty  .

Legitimacy of a bounty project is determined by an individual has got nothing to do with a bounty manager. As an individual, you've got to do your own research and ascertain as to whether to promote the project or ignore it but depending on a bounty manager to determine the legitimacy of a bounty project is a wrong approach since bounty managers don't determine how legit a project is.

It is true, even big managers like Wapinter are making mistakes and messing up with projects that are unable to collect soft caps. Nothing is better than your own research of each project and only in that way you can be sure that the project is legit.

The bounty manager also get scammed with their times promoting a sham project and even those intended for stealing of people's hard earned money. They also fall victim of circumstances in the cryptocurrency world.

There are a lot of bounty projects out there on the bounties thread posted by different bounty managers and even though most of them are trying as much as possible not to post any scam project to tarnish their image, it is very advisable to do your own investigations on any project you decide to promote, research the project, the team, its board of advisors, how their support channels work and the investors or partnerships backing the project to determine its legitimacy because bounty managers do not determine the legitimacy of bounty projects.

Bounty managers are hired to promote or manage the promotion of the team.
Even they will do research on the project it is not the full knowledge that they can get, though they will have their upfront payment.
As a bounty participants we need to do the research also before joining.

for me the bounty manager is very influential in terms of promoting the project. and accompanied by own analysis and research before joining. I also saw the bounty manager's track record so as not to get caught up in the scam project.

You cannot fully trust the bounty manager because not all bounty managers are responsible for the projects they manage, they are only tasked to handle the project, in this case only you can make your own choices before making a decision in the bounty campaign.

Bounty manager is not a benchmark to determine whether the project is good or not. there are a lot of good quality bounty managers, but they have been dealing with scam projects. just call it wapinter, sylon, artezy, and many more they are good BMs but they have also been wrong. so always verify and find out the project thoroughly before you invest.

The bounty manager is just an extension of the team to manage the bounty, and I think the bounty manager is also just someone who wants to make money just like other bounty participants and if there are projects that don't pay / scam, we cannot directly blame the bounty manager because right now the payment distribution for the participants to be carried out by the team and the task of the bounty manager is only to send the final spreadsheet after the bounty ends.

That is good, there is no pint justifying the bounty manager, I am not saying they are the cause for the misfortune that befell many people investment or they are the one responsible to be catching scammers, but to an extent, if bounty mangers could do their proper research on most projects, they would have already determined the faith of most projects that would have been scam by not promoting them, and if anyone manages to slip off their eyes, that is where the bounty hunters comes in, because they have their own big role to play too by also verifying whatever the bounty manager present to them before engaging in the work of promoting them through their social media platform. Everyone really has a role to play in every of these things.

A good experienced bounty manager will analyze how real the chances are for this ICO to collect at least a minimum. A web-site will look, will check a command, to understand and make sure, that ICO will really execute the obligations before the participants of the bounty.

Yes, bounty managers do not determine that, but they should be able to do that. If the manager not responsible for that,
then they can just accepting any projects as long as they get paid from managing their campaign.  ::)

indeed even if the high ranks bounty manager or the trusted bounty manager will not make the project go successful. The only thing that bounty manager do is to promote only the project to have more publication and expose to the crypto world but doesn't mean that it will make the project successfully.

Many bounty managers have no say or proof in the legitimacy of a bounty project. Many of these bounty managers try as much as possible not to come out with scam projects in other to protect their names on bitcointalk but this is no proof that these cryptocurrency projects are legit. The only way one can find out the legitimacy of a crypto project is through a vivid research on the project and the team behind it.

In my opinion, bounty managers only do work according to what is ordered by those who have a project, if a device is mostly influential for work experience in the bounty world, but it all has no effect depending on sales and funding, in my opinion.

A manager's bounty rank is not a guarantee that the project he is handling will definitely succeed There are many things that affect, experience, allocation, etc. I prefer bounty managers who work in a professional, friendly, and fast response. If it is related to the project, I will choose the working product and the token is already listed in the market.

Good bounty manager has prestige, so he can't let him down intentionally. But you can't blame bounty manager for scam project. You have to choose a project undoubtedly, it's not good depends on bounty manager.

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Bounty Managers are ordinary people and how they all can be a conscientious person or scammer. This is not surprising, it has always been so.

Of course the legitimacy of a project cannot be seen from the bounty manager, we must examine for ourselves how the project we will participate in, so we will get its own satisfaction

Even as much as the bounty manager is not part of the team and only an outsourced agency, I believe that every bounty manager has a responsibility to make some research about the project before taking the job. Every project which is promoted by the bounty manager could be a dent on his reputation if the project is found to be a scam.

I think just like bounty hunters, bounty managers don not look beyond profit and returns when it comes to bounty programs

We can only do researches and join
While managers do researches, check money involved and list

T is up to project to fulfill end of the bargain

Honestly speaking, determination of the legitimacy of a cryptocurrency project is an indivivdual affair. As an individual, you are supposed to do your very own research and make conclusions from it so that you don't blame anyone for the consequences because though bounty managers try as much as possible to bring legit projects to boost their reputation, it is not a must ince bounty managers do not determine the legitimacy of a crypto project.

Its always a good idea to research much into projects rather than depending on bounty managers to determine the legitimacy of a cryptocurrency project. Yeah most bounty managers do their very best but their very best might honestly not be enough in bringing out a legit cryptocurrency project so the best thing to do as an individual is to research and choose accordingly.

That time has long come and gone, people are very wise now. Bounty managers used to play a big role in hype back then, and making it seem like the project is legitimate. Most bounty managers don't have patience to wait too, hence they just accept offers and move on.

This is so true, the bounty manager's rank doesn't really determine if the project is legitimate or not, the best they can do is to ensure the token allocation is delivered, sometimes it's hard to tell if a project is genuine. Well, some bounty managers go as far as ensuring they do proper due diligence before managing a bounty and not just about the payment. 

Most bounty managers now take all projects in a row and lead them , I also think that bounty managers now do not affect anything and ico projects have died.

This is why i do stick out with those reputable manager in terms or succession of the project but somehow you cant get any guarantees for not to become like a shit afterwards.
When i do join up bounty on the past i do always keep eyeing on good managers choices and wait it up for them to launch before i do join and also i do make some self research if the chosen project was really worth or not.Its not because the manager is reputable and good standing it doesnt mean that you should fully rely into its decisions.
They cant be perfect but at least you do know that they are careful on selecting projects because it would reflect into their current reputation.

I believe that the bounty manager should still have weight, and be the guarantor that the project, at least, will not be a scam.
Whether it will bring profit is another question that does not depend on the bounty manager.
In any case, with a professional bounty manager, I can be calm that my work will be counted in fairness.

What if a project decides to manage and run their own campaign? How does that affect your thoughts on the campaign and whether you want to participate or not?

I ever participated on that bounty back then in 2017. They run their bounty by their own team as bounty manager and the result is very impressive. They always active to answer any of people's question, updated our stake in weekly and after bounty ends, as their promise to distrbute the token in 1 month after bounty ends, they did. Their token even reached 6x from their ICO price and many bounty hunter got paid decent amount from them.

Yeah I remembered that one too where I do able to join up some bounties that their own team is the one who do handle out their program without relying on any
reputable managers in this forum.At first, you cant really avoid not to be hesitant yet we do always ask or look after on bounty managers legitimacy but they ended up too well and
you can see the professionalism in them which you cant believe that they do able to do so which proves out that it isn't precise for us to depend on what we are currently seeing yet
there are others who can perform the job well.

A reliable bounty manager will do the test carefully Before accepting a request to manage a bounty campaign. Because in managing a bounty, money is not their only goal, but their credibility is also at stake. Bounty manager cannot determine the final result of a bounty, but with the good credibility of a manager will have a positive effect to attract the attention of people to join their project.

Perhaps, you are depending the legitimacy of cryptocurrency project to a bounty manager. Well I think that is not a good way of yours.
Because I know most of the manager doesn't care about it, I'm not saying all BM is like that.  It is much better to depend it on your own way
of researching about the legitimacy of the campaign project.

We should not pass much blame to bounty manager as well because we are all human and the bounty managers will not wish that the people following and participating in the bounty that he/she is promoting are not get paid.
That not withstanding a good bounty manager must score 55% when rated about all the program he/she have promoted.

For sure nobody will decide or participate a bounty manager with failed projects and that is the effect bounty managers can have on a project but for the determination of the legitimacy of a cryptocurrency project, bounty managers can not determine that and it take only vivid research to come out with the legitimacy of a crypto project

Bounty managers cannot guarantee that a project will succeed in the future ... because the bounty manager only manages the bounty of the campaign and he does not belong to the project development team ... so we need knowledge to do various researches about projects to follow and investments in them. so we are not fooled by the scam project

This is correct, but a person who becomes a manager should have the capability of screening out the good and the bad projects. I am not saying that their decision is 100% correct, it is a screening and therefore will have false positive and false negatives. Truely it depends on the need of the bounty hunter. They often are reckless in joining the campaigns without looking into the project owners and then they complain of the project being scam.

Many of these bounty hunters even done have a little level of literacy and are posting like bots being told by some superior, probably.

Bounty managers need to keep up with their reputation if they want to remain in this business, bounty manager last campaign is his best recommendation for more follow up works, if his reputation is tainted with past scam project, I don't think bounty hunters will trust him to join his bounty campaign, I have seen some bounty manager washing their hands when they see their project turned to scam, and this is one of their bad practice.