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It is so unfortunate the kind of bad treatment unleashed to the bounty hunters by the project team in the recent days. Hunters are treated lesser than beggars by the team despite working days and nights in promotion of the project to its success.
Most teams forget that the work of the hunters is responsible for bringing the investors which contribute fund to finance the project. The team instruct the bounty manager to change the bounty rules unfavorably to hunters hiding under the rule that they have the right to change the rule as they are pleased. The expend the bounty duration without increasing the bounty pool. They delay the bounty distribution in fear of dumping which most of the time do not come from the hunters but from the investors who got outrageous bonus on their investments or the team members who doubts the objectives of the project.

The bounty hunters has to find a way to stop this unfair treatment as it is already becoming unbearable.

As a fellow bounty hunter back when the Airdrop was so promising I had certainly felt the same way but realizing who are giving us money I realize that it is the same as working your ass in a company as bounty hunters as an employee, truly devastating and certainly not free because there are set of rules involve just like working in a company, there are limitations but then again I get both sides to lament in getting a successful bounty but bounty campaign is the one that are giving the pay and we are considered as employed to that system if we don't like the system then resign or in my opinion boycott any bounty projects.

Recently, unfortunately for bounty hunters, bounty campaign has not become the same as they were in 2017-18.  The reward is reduced, KYC should be performed almost always.  Yes, this can be done if the project inspires confidence, but every year there are fewer and fewer successful projects, and sending everyone their documents is not pleasant and to some extent dangerous.  I agree that we need tools to select ICO companies.  A project that is serious about development cannot attract investors at a time when there are many empty projects that, for some reason, cannot finish work or, even worse, hide with investor money.  I hope there are ways to put things in order.

Doing bounty entails "investing your time and energy" even though you don't invest funds, this is the more reason why I frown at people saying bounty is a source of "free" coins. It's true that recently many team members do not keep to their promises and most often reduce bounty allocation, extend duration for bounty, implement KYC which might vary from their initial terms and conditions. The painful aspect is that some do not even distribute at all and some will extend time for distribution by an unfair duration, example digitalbits. I really think it's wise to do bounties handled by reputable managers and also do proper research on the projects you decide to promote.

 Imagine joining a "one month signature campaign" and at the end of the month, it's extended to 5 months and you are given the rule that your reward will be invalidated if you remove the signature. I just hope these things should  stop for good.

You are the one who needs to make some adjustments.

You accept their terms without an assurance that they will be true to you.

If you want to get out on that unfair treatment, don't do bounties at all. It's a risk joining in the first place.

I rarely encountered mistreatment of managers but you also need to understand that a bountist is like a McDonald's worker, if something is not pleasant, the company will always find a replacement.

One way to stop this would be using a trusted escrow or smart contract or not participating at all. Escrow kinda will be best option. I never had problem with any bounty campaign except the last one I did, They denied payment to some participants with sudden announcement of closing of form used for submitting address.

It has become a reality if they offer something interesting from the start, and the hunters welcome it based solely on review and trust. Their rules are progressive and cannot be sued.

Their freedom in conducting campaign publications leaves the participants trapped in the flow of policies which suddenly change frequently. there is no active solution unless you already understand that this trend will always be the same specifically. follow, or not.

I don’t understand what is the point of being offended by what seems unfair to you.
For those who treat the bounty hunters with disdain and present them with their accusations, everything looks different, this is their truth, and from part it will correspond to reality.
The bounty does not bring projects as much benefit as it really should, besides many abuse it.

If you think that you were treated unfairly, don't join them back and look for a bounty that will have the rules that is in favor of your likes. I don't think that they are treating bounty hunters like that, you probably have misjudged their judgment for not being reliable with their distributions. Get some standards and depend to the bounty managers that has accuracy for choosing a better bounty.

Yeah, unfortunately bounty hunters usually are being treated like free slaves, that will do anything just to get some "free" tokens. Their job are not treated like job, it's like a game where project team can change the rules and do whatever they want with this naughty little kids - bounty hunters :)

Unfortunately it is. When someone in the telegram group asks a question about distribution they behave as if they do something shameful when he is a bounty hunter. I think it is the fault of these hunters, because they value projects more than they have, and projects think they have accomplished something bigger. Also, the lack of an "address" to complain is another factor that makes us powerless. Mistakes against hunters is often unrequited.

We have to be more stronger than anytime before.
Projects do not have enough money for development, bounty managers are scamming to earn atleast something in this situation and bounty hunters are leaving due to low earnings and many scams.

But, there is light at the end of the tunnel, currently cryptocurrencies are so cheap, so even we earn less money, we could afford more cryptocurrencies in the end.

Yeah you don't hear a lot about airdrops these days, as opposed to 2017 and '18 when it seemed like every other thread in the altcoin section was hyping a new one.  But I didn't think any of them were as promising as you say.  They all seemed like worse than shit coins to me and I never bothered to participate in any of them.

Bounty hunters keep getting treated like shit because they keep going back for more, even when there should be ample warning that a scam is going to happen.  Even if there aren't red flags, nobody insists on escrowed funds and payment in a coin that's actually worth something.  Waiting to claim tokens is a losing deal for any number of reasons and while I have *some* sympathy for the bounty hunters' plight, it isn't much.  Helping to promote those stupid projects isn't much of a job and it really doesn't help anyone except the scammy project devs.

Ive been experienced it before, I joined a campaign last year and its been weeks since they are not given any notifications or news about what is gonna happen because the campaign is ended, and many of the telegram member are mad at us because they say that it is better to joined bounty because they will get free coins rather than investing , yes it is true but the thing is they pity us for being a bounty hunter even though we work for it.

I most don't like it if the developper originates in such a way as to delay distribution, for me it's just an excuse. Bounty hunters are often blamed for dumps. Even though it's not just the bounty hunter that's the cause right? By providing the bounty pool, the management team should be able to predict and prepare preventive actions to overcome it.
On the other hand, we must be able to accept whatever risks occur, don't we decide to join and already know that rules can change at any time? so with that hope, I don't expect too high. If you want a definite and better guarantee, please join a bounty handled by a trusted BM such as Hhampuz or others who give a fix token reward in BTC.

Bounty hunters have always been subjected to such terms
When you join bounties and there’s that disclaimer that right to alter any rules

As from then; you are on your own
You can still figure out a right way to participate in bounties s

It really depends on what bounty campaign yoj are joining and how much they will distribute the reward and members count. And some campaign really providing rewards to the bounty hunters but depending on hoe much you have share and do their task.

And also some are just a bunch of scammers and using the bounty hunters to spreas their scam campaign which is bad on our side that affects the new investor to not trust some people regarding the cryptocurrency.

yes and I think there isn't much that can be done so they don't change anything. Rules have been set from the beginning and we must be able to accept that fact. If you are afraid of that risk then don't join from the start, if you protest and don't accept the fact, it's the same as you opposing your own decision, right? So let's think more mature, this is indeed a bad season, be patient.

then, the only solution if you have found that campaign and you should not join on that campaign. If you have participated for several weeks and it's much better to leave the campaign rather than put your efforts for nothing. So many garbage developers right now that can't even maintain its platform. That kind of developer can be also called as scammer too consider about they have been scammed our time and effort.

The only way to prevent it to not join into its campaign and find another legit campaign. i don't even think you can find another solution since the rules created by them. That's the only way and just try to boycott such bounty.

This is ridiculous. Show me the bounty hunter who promotes the project day round the clock without sleep and food. Most use bots and multi-accounts.
The conditions in bounty companies are ridiculously simple. What kind of justice are we talking about?

Working in moderation, health is also very important to pay attention to, right? I became a bounty hunter for about three years and I chose to be realistic, work according to my abilities and not overexert myself. Looks like the OP is expecting too high so it can't accept reality. I also know how it feels, rules change, rewards are reduced, and various other dramas. But what else can I do? a protest will not change anything.

Oh by the way, yobit has yet to pay its cryptotalk participants for 6 days now.  I'm sure some of you posting here are in the campaign and it's the same concept.  How long does it take for everyone to wise up and refuse to get scammed again?  How long should you stick with a campaign or bounty when you know you're getting screwed?

I'm sure nobody will respond to my post, but I'd love to know if anyone feels the same way.  It's not good when you agree to offer some advertising space or do work for a bounty and then the project dev or company just shits all over you.

there are at least 4 projects that I've worked on from 2018 until now and none of them have been listed on the market exchange. of course a long time, it's been 1 year did not get anything from the bounty. I think the next bounty must be listed as a token to the market exchange first to make it look like a real realistic project.

It's true but not all campaigns like that. Good project they can project his projects well even until his sales. Dump price due to excessive sales bonuses and airdrop that the allocated fief is quite large. Take a look at NRG coin that still withstood its price when its eardrop was shared yesterday. Even back up when the distribution was complete. So there is no way to stop those unfair. Just leave it and find a good project on this platform.

Unfortunate but this is a sad reality for hunters. Also we are the one who needs to adjust with this cause campaign always have discretion and managers and team take advantages of this "clause" We have the rights to change the term of this campaign

But if you joined a good manager with high reputation maybe this will be a different case. I'm a hunter too been there and than that so I know how it feels.

That is why, it is the responsible of the bounty hunter to choose wisely as to which bounty project should you join to. I have encountered such a waste project before, the team always delaying and rescheduling the distribution of the token rewards due to the bad market condition, etc.

And there is no choice for a bounty hunter but to wait even if it takes a long period of time before receiving the fruit of labor of the participants. With these, the only thing I can see is to choose a project which has a strong impact and has a good product that will eventually be guarantee to be listed so the distribution of the rewards will not be delay as well.

Yes, the only thing we can do is to bear this since they are the one who pays bounty hunters. They have all the right for what they want for the project, and bounty hunters are just there to work for the project.

Bounty manager is just working for the project, and he also have no right which is the same as bounty hunters. The only thing is, his ideas might be considered by the team, so I think, the bounty manager has the capability to influence ideas that may give positivity to bounty hunters.

what kind of fair rule do you want? in fact the project team views us as 'who needs' and because it is as if the bounty hunters are in need then they can control it. indeed, we basically need each other, but in reality they can reverse it, I do not understand the solution for this because we are here independently. there is no one who can help in this, even though the forum admin

Two things you can do is stop promoting projects that give too much supply to the bounty hunters, that will dilute the price and yours won't be worth anything. Other thing is that you should always work with a trusted bounty campaign manager. They often do research the projects before you. Those don't guarantee that you get anything, but that same thing stands for most icos. You don't always get what you invest into.

The only answer to unfair treatment from new bounty projects is reliable bounty managers, sometimes good projects comes from new bounty managers but due to their intent they will f*** bounty hunters up in the end, find trusty BM that have gained lots of respect on this forum and you will be fine

Your own will brings you to participate to any bounty works and it's your obligation to study and assess first to avoid or to lessen the chance of being
victimized by those scam developers. If you pay attention with your assessment, you'll soon then understand the factors of those projects that you
will going to support the chance of participating with good and paying projects is higher than supporting those scammers.

Any project that expand bounty duration without adding extra reward to the bounty pool is not a reliable project, few bounties this year did this and after bounty ends they still not pay hunters, its better to stay away from bounties with large $$$ rewards and join channels of reputable bounty managers

The easiest way is to stop joining any of the bounties out there.

But really, you can't really ask for more. Especially if the team themselves doesn't give a damn about bounty hunters that has worked their ass out for the project only to be paid for a penny. Now you know the risk of joining bounty these days. But your need to also remember that not all campaigns were like that.

Some campaigns gave a fair rules and rewards. At least it used to be like that back then.

Almost all the bounties i promoted this year refused to list on exchange because of fear of dumps, they are waiting for next year hoping market will take a new turn but i belief they are all bad projects if not market condition is not something to worry about if the project is very good

There unfortunately is not a lot bounty hunters can do as their rights are limited and this just goes with the terrain so to speak so all you can do is verify that a campaign manager is reputable as well as the project itself and that should increase your chances of receiving a fair reward

Find a way to avoid anything that can get your time wasted when hunting for bounties
1. Stay away from bounties with too many token rewards or high bounty allocations because they always end up been shitcoins, giving out too many tokens will make it worthless
2. Reliable bounty managers will help you to avoid not getting paid when bounty ends, bounty managers that always pays are on this forum, DYOR
3. Join many campaigns as possible, we have too many hunters in this space today, relying on a single campaign will result in very low payout

This is one of the excuses that i don't get. Why would the price matter when it launches? If the product was good enough, surely people would be happy to buy it with a discount on the markets. As an ico investor, i would be happy if i could lower my buy in on the the project i really believed in. I think that's a behavior of either incompetent devs, or they would just lack the money to do so. Either way it's an insult against bounty hunters and investors.

This is indeed often the case, where bounty hunters seem to be treated improperly and they will feel that what is done is in vain, promote the project and take the time to get the results they want, but a lot of reality is felt by the bounty hunters who are not according to what they want and they will feel unfair and disadvantaged by what they do.

Its your choice to make as a bounty hunter, whatever choices you made is what will determine your end results, i prefer checking out bounty managers now more than any thing else because most bounties that failed me are from new BM or projects conducted by the project teams themselves

It is a risk.
Always had been.
Your choice if you want to join in. That is why they are getting lesser now. Some bounty hunters did their choice when there is no more income coming in.
They choose a different path or they begun looking for better companies that might really reach success.
You know what really the problem is? You chose the wrong team to join in.
There are still a lot of stories for those who made a lot of money just doing bounties.

I did. Gained in different bounties and when I sum it up it might go to a whooping 50k USD which cannot just be picked up in the streets here in our country. That is a lot for me.

I have gotten used to bad treatments from bounties like not getting paid at all or getting paid in half, i have complained many times about solution needed to tackle bounty projects that threat hunters badly but it was all in vain but now i only follow bubbalex bounties and arteezy this days

This must be a lesson to all before joining any bounties just make sure it is handled by a reputable or proven bounty managers usually with ranks Full member and above, I can see most newbies are the only one who joins bounty today not knowing the legitimacy of the project they endorse and in the end if the target amount money is not successful they postponed the project and all bounty hunters are left nothing because many bounty today are ignoring to pay hunters my advise do not join bounties which not yet listed on any exchange its just a waste of time. 

As a bounty hunter its part of the risks, do not expect positive outcome always but since fund raising is the main issue its better to join projects that are already listed and trading as well

Bounty hunters are still unaware of the importance of bounty managers, if you want to get paid from time to time do research on good bounty managers and check their past bounties too, check out btcltcdigger or bubbalex

Many bounty hunters still follows projects introduced by newbie accounts, this is a sign of 'may get paid or not' to me, i prefer to follow bounty managers with good reputations on this forum, then the rest is to do research on the projects they introduce

Well, I really like the time when you can get gains by just participating in a simple Airdrop and this would only take a couple of mins. time, And I am comparing bounty campaign with work because that is what is happening and what I think that have a comparison, but bounty campaigns ended up in a scammy way so in my opinion instead of joining bounty campaign and just waste time, get a job that has benefits and truly is paying their employees.

I do not think developers are cruel about it. Whichever group you look at, there are hundreds of questions about distribution, and they are all hunters. Hunters endeavor to treat themselves like beggars, this is based on their long-term effort.

That is really sad reality but it is a fact that we have our own choices and some choices that we have made doesn't end up good results. Well not all projects are like that. Mostly are but still not all. I guess we just need to be more careful next time and pick projects that is different from what you have said.

As a bounty hunter myself, I also encountered the same issues and share the same feelings. Nothing much we can do to overcome this treatment with bounty hunters. Better might be to stay away from bounty hunting.

Now it is difficult for teams to attract investments with the help of bounty. Those who want to invest diminished. Accordingly, the attitude to bounty hunters has changed. Teams do not want to admit to their failures in collecting investments. And so they have nothing to offer the bounty hunters but promises.

Very sad indeed as the efforts of bounty hunters is not well remunerated and its very sad these days to see the total earnings of hunters very small compared to the time and effort used in promoting those projects some school of thought would say the over all bearish of crypto market is partly responsible for the low pay out while cases of scams ICOs had also made investors to shun most the projects.

Bounty managers are just dependent to the team as well, they don't have anything to make the team accountable for what is promised. There were bounty management platforms that were also scammed, the team as usual were given tokens as if it were valuable but after all the hard works, the team can still abandon the project leaving all with nothing.

Its the team that has to really be accountable and has to be made accountable. If bounty hunters can't do this, I guess we still are going to be promoting projects that will still scam us.

It seems to me that the unjust treatment of the bounty hunters is the most frequently referenced post on this forum. They are indeed very often treated in a dishonest way. But i want to say that bounty hunters do not bring a lot of investors to the project, often it is the team itself that is looking for sponsors, and bounty hunters just create a buzz and spread the word about the project.

The bounty managers shouldn't be blamed due to the lack of support from the team, the bounty payments directly depend on the decisions of the project team. The low payments usually don't guarantee the project will become successful but the team doesn't want to give up due to the possibility to make the money from the marketing budget.

Bounty hunters job is to spread words about the project, either it will attract investors or not is not on us anymore, if bounty hunters are not getting the job done why is our help needed? if you belief in your words why are you wearing freelanex signature?

The core problem is that people think that bounty hunting is nothing more than doing nothing. Promoting projects is a serious work, and those tokens are earned in exchanged on time. A lot of people just do not get it.

i dont understand why many people here suggest to avoid bounty bcz of that problem. it wont fix the problem at all
we need healthy bussiness model so it would be long last. we have to think about 'how to solve the problem', not only just to avoid.

I know that the team does that unfair bcz of low investment they get, so it would affect to bounty hunter as a project promoter
if the project goes smooth and get high investment, the team wont do unfair like this. (look at 2017 project)

So, the solution is to get back good project around here and make good investment and the result, there is no unfair treatment anymore.

One and the same topic arises for a very long time. Yes bounty hunters today are not protected exactly the same as the whole community. Everyone has to take risks. This is the meaning of this industry in today's time. If bounty hunters made huge profits and they were permanent the industry would be mired in scams. Since there would be a huge number of participants. Today there are not many participants and there are very good projects. Therefore, prospects for bounty programs are available. Approach the choice of the project responsibly.

In the last 12 months of so there have been almost no bounty campaign that has paid any decent reward to hunters the bounty market has become slower and slower since then and now it seems to be completely stagnant or dead and the situation can only change if we see the ico craze back in the market which does not seem to be the case for now.

When you know they are treating hunters in that way then why you guys were still promoting it.At least join the campaign which is managed by reputed managers so you won't get random rules from time to time.

We can't find some way to get justice for the bounty hunters. They are the most vulnerable people. If teams often throw their investors then what can we say about bounty hunters.

Well, if that problem is about the related bounty manager, because when bounty hunter participants feel something is unfair, then it will be a job that must be done well by the manager who can make a fairer decision about the problem. Therefore, when the project hires managers with a good reputation it might be a sign if the project will continue to develop the project with maximum effort and we should be more careful when wanting to promote a project.

indeed that you should be able to get out and move to become a participant of other bounty campaigns but you should know that there are currently very few bounty campaigns managed by professional bounty managers, most of them don't want to pay dearly by bounty managers and that's the reason the bounty campaign is currently a lot went wrong.

It's tough being a bounty hunter these days. Most projects only wants the likes and follows but don't want to give what they promised

Sad but that's reality... If ever you feel like bounty hunters are being treated unfairly, even you, then don't waste your time and efforts anymore on that campaign. You can find another one that at least doesn't do what you have said. But I think they are just doing that because they were told to do so... They're just following other people as well. And if you're not satisfied with the treatment, find much better one.

Lol if you are not watching all of the bounties properly. As you can see that MYO has already paid a very good amount and remember sessia has already paid the hhunters too with the decent amount and i think that you are not right by saying there have been no bounty campaign that paid reward to the hunters.

I think what he mean about "almost no bounty campaign" is that, there is no much bounty campaigns that is still paying unlike before. Because most of them are scam. There are still few bounty projects that are legit and paying, but it is really hard to find a good one. Even a legit looking project turns out to be a scam.

There is something we all put aside and pretend as of it doesn't matter, i think the real reason why many projects failed to keep their promises is problem with funds, they aren't happy with what they raised especially those that failed to meet softcap, its normal not to expect anything from such projects

If at the beginning Bounty managers and developers say that rules can change, you should understand at the beginning. If you don't read the rules, it's your fault for joining without knowing the rules.
But it would be nice if the bounty is paid directly with btc, eth or whatever already has a price on the exchange. This is of course with a strict bounty hunter recruitment system also to reduce or eliminate the cheaters.
On the other hand, this is also to test the extent to which developers are serious about the project and not just a matter of raising funds. Because I think most developers now only offer ideas here without any reserve funds they have, so they are like gambling here. Which in turn affected the new rules at the bounty session.

This thing has been happening since the beginning of the bounties, these things cannot stop I feel so. The main issue is the market is bearish and we all are not getting a good profit from the market even dev also so some project managers are afraid to list their coins that's why they are delaying their project or extending. Things will be fine when the market will again bullish.

Sometimes its not the teams fault for not paying hunters as promised, they failed to meet softcap in fundraising so no way they can be able to pay bounty hunters what they promised them

Somehow traders work hard and they get only penny for promoting their business here in forum and other social media. Other bounty hunters earn penny of money and scam someday.

then they dont promised that they will pay and besides they can always pay with other coins like btc or eth   . there is always a way to pay thier workers if they wanted to not unless they want to recieve a heapful of complain and they wont care about thier reputation getting rekt but that is the reality right now  . they only to for the hunters to do is to avoid joining them if they cannot take the consequencies but better if they can only join a campaign that promise to pay coins that are already exchangeable .

You're right its hard also for them to make their project succeed due to the status of the market and not enough investors to support them. In the end the hunters will only suffer for not getting what they deserves and their effort will be wasted for how many months of promoting, thats the sad reality. For hunters, if you dont want to end up victimized by failed projects then dont join or choose carefully where to participate.

A big amount of bounty hunters that promoting a project doesn't guarantee the project will be successful in the market because most of investors are not looking at the quantity of the bounty hunters promoting but they're doing a deep research of the project before they go invest in a project

Unfortunately that was the new norms, of doing some bounty campaigns nowadays that's why if you choose to stay and continue to promote projects through bounties, just make sure that you choose those friendly projects that fairly treated each and everyone including bounty hunters im sure there is some good and honest bounties out there. choose for the better avoid those bounties that you feel its unfair to everyone.

No new solution can fix this problem except market start bouncing up big time, IEO hardcap are hard to hit this days and investors are not finding new projects as promising again so the blame is the market price

Now we are in an unpredictable situation which way we have to choose the right to make money, everything seems to be lagging and it is impossible to predict how long the situation will continue. Yes, IEO is finding very difficult to reach the hard cap, but in some potential, they are reaching the hard cap easily.

The only way to stop this is for the bounty hunters to support project that has a working product, those project that does not offers $$millions as rewards and those project that does not extend beyond 8 weeks.
Bounty managers can offer but a little assistance in this problem.

We seem to have no choice. because the moderators only control members here, in addition to the bounties campaign, they are not responsible and the fraud still happens regularly. Now that we have a sense of self-discipline, we should be knowledgeable about analyzing good or bad projects. because we are freelancers and no one can guarantee us. After a series of scam projects, I had the opinion that we should only participate in projects that are already performing well.

I think we can only follow their rules, because they gave up the money also I think we didn't do so much for the impact for the sale, they got investor from event or conferences. For extended bounty program, it's common mate for now because crypto isn't hype like 2017. They need more promotions and bounty hunter is one of many option that can do promotion massively.

This is definitely true and it's the reality. It's just frustrating that despite our hard work and contribution to the success of the project, we're still not being treated well. We shouldn't support projects who aren't treating bounty hunters fairly. We're just lucky that there are still projects who know how to handle and support the bounty hunters who are working hard to promote their project.

to be honest, at the moment the bounty work does not bring in many investors, if they reach hardcap I think they will dare to distribute their tokens to bounty hunters, but in fact they make manipulation of their tokens selling well to softcap but actually nobody invests there only ETH their team who was sent to invest there so that it was seen that there was an investment, the way it was often done by the founder of the project because I always monitored them

I am not taking anyone's side here, I see that most of the bounties that currently exist are not really profitable and even their team profile is unclear, doing AMA via video will directly increase investor confidence about the project, the market is currently unstable and not some are profitable so they don't have a lot of money to hold dumper from bounty hunters, so they will continue to delay payments and make you like a beggar ask for the results of your work

What you are saying was a fact. Indeed some managers are abusing their positions. Like for an instance implementing KYC at the end of the campaign.
But if you are real and not a bot there is nothing to be afraid of, But giving data to a new project is unsafe that is why some hunters avoid this KYC.
And it ends up so many hunters are not being paid, free promotion. If you do kyc just make sure it is legitimate project with 3rd party kyc service, not just a google form or similar. Joining a bounty is like a gamble is the first place we don't know if it will succeed or not. These days only few of them succeed. 1 out of 10.  :D

They need more exposures and funds to continue the project, if they are exceeding it's because they still not getting the target amount that they needed to raise in order to continue the progress that they've planned to provide. Many bounty hunters have the same concern regarding to shares and the total time period of their works we need to assess every participations in order not to waste or time.

This often happens and this should be the responsibility of the bounty manager. Changes to the rules or extension of the bounty period should be notified before the bounty will end and there is also an alternative if the bounty hunter leaves the campaign, the stake will still be obtained

Maybe bounty is not working well now as many investors know that we are a paid in advertising these campaigns, there should be new way to do bounty hunting or technique that can attract new investors. For the mean time that developers don't see ways we need to be careful in joining since we are not the priority of the developers or the team so we must know when to stop or when is enough for our efforts.

The team have the larger part of the unfair treatment to bounty hunters even though portion also comes from bounty managers, one of the major reason i can say is the reason to this is as a result of the expectations some team have on tuning a bounty campaign, once the result are not meeting expectations, then team don't feel it necessary to oblige to their promise,

The main purpose of conducting a bounty is to attract investors to buy into the idea of the project, but if that goal is not being achieved tends to bring rift and dissatisfaction that will result to unfair treatment.

We cannot blame the market price just like that, because the price in the market is caused by the demand and supply of a token, and there is a solution to fix this problem as long as we want to fix it together.

Most times hunters are really treated poorly by some dev team, they disregard the work the hunters are putting in to spread the word of their project through all the available means, even if hunters don't invest money to support the project they invest their time and resource (e.g you need internet to always be online and that cost money) which should be equally considered,

Aside from the unfair treatment to hunters, they are also blame for any dump in price that project will experience even we all know that it is not always the case,

Unfortunately, nothing can be done about this since the team are the ones calling the shot, hunters just have to go along with it.

Try not to complain but to endure because that is the best that you can actually do. There is no one to report bad project owners to. Everyone works at their whims and caprices. Just pray to work for a good project owner and not those that do not regard hunters as valuable. There is a certain Deex exchange that has refused to pay their bounty hunters since campaign ended in January this year. Just an example of bad project owners.

I can relate with your position. Its quite unfortunate that the effort of bounty hunters are not appreciated by the project. Bounty hunters needs to make the project see their relevance and that could be done by suspending their services when the project is not fulfilling their own side of the bargain either by increasing the bounty duration without increasing the reward.

It is very worrisome the way some project owners treat hunters. Many of them forgot that hunters inputs aided them in the project. Some managers are also to be blame because they don't protect hunters they invited to do the publicity. Some managers don't care whether hunters are paid or not. What they know is themselves.

I agree with your opinion, Bounty hunters are doing their job without any guarantees of their work will be paid, so the only option for them is to carefully choose the projects for participation.

Sorry to hear that mate but in some case, we can't control their own way of attitude in which it makes so unfair since each of us here working for our own good. Well, as one of the hunters as well as an investors I also experience that kind of treatment but we have nothing to do about it and wait for their next instructions.

Hunters are indeed treated unfair in this space. Atimes, I wonder what went wrong. I guess it's because there are several hunters who don't know their worth and are willing to collect anything from the project for their services. The bounty managers are certain that ones a bounty program is up, bounty hunters would flock. Its quite unfortunate that bounty hunting is no more reputable and hunters are treated like beggars.

Such rules changes have occurred since the manager came from the project team itself.
the solution is to ask all bounty hunters to stop participating in the bounty campaign so that the project teams no longer arbitrarily make rules that detrimental the bounty participants. there is no other solution except to take action like this.

It can also be blamed on those who attempt to cheat the project funds by using more than one account to participate in the bounty. This leads to a forced KYC and nobody likes that. Problem is some bounty hunters are so greedy that they dont care about the project at all. They only care about their own earnings.

Or rather use that time to learn some trading and start trading USD/BTC for a change instead of spamming twitter reports. These shitcoins will never be big and they will remain low because of the dumping by hunters - which again does not get bought since the project ends up in a mess. Same story everywhere. So stop taking part in them and do something better with bitcoin.

This is a positive attitude but dont lose hope on new projects with an unknown manager. Sometime the project isn't just familiar with the process here but they are legit. Ive joined some projects with unknown manager but still were able to get my tokens and able to sell it.

Manager are also like hunters who working for them, so its the project we must always look upon, lile their team, legality of it.

Once a campaign is concluded, in most cases, hunters are ignored. Questions on updates, relevant information on spreadsheet update and payment distribution are often ignored. This less than respectful treatment of individuals that help in actively promoting a project in order to ensure its success are one of the many things hunters havr to endure.

Well, we have nothing to do about that mate as they have their own qualifications about that. Each of us aim a good bounty but in some point we might experience not a good one. Here in crypto currency community will be lucky or not as we just we wish our luck here..

I am one of those people who advice people againt bounties but your point is wrong here. The bounty manager is often at the mercy of the project owners too. So they cant reveal much info to the hunters being a middleman and having to watch both sides. But few people will actually understand this.

I doubt you have participated in any bounty as of now. I wont suggest you do though.
It is what they signed up for. No use complaining after accepting the terms and conditions.

You all should be happy that this forum is so lenient about altcoin projects and allowing them to run. They could have stopped bounties long back but they have not.

Yeah but sometimes just being enduring is not enough, it is also important to air your views regarding the treatments meted out to hunters from some dev team and in some cases bm as well, i get it everyone join willingly but that does not mean they should be treated wrongly, after all, this projects comes and seek for participants who will help them to promote their ideas and get paid for doing so, then why treating this participants whom you solicit their help with total disregards?
All this are happening because the teams know there is no authority to hold them accountable for their action.

What do you do to the project that actually launched their product, the developers and the team completely ignore bounty hunters while the project gain traction and investors coming to buy in the exchange?

I think bounty hunters can gather around and do something to them and can probably force the team to pay by spreading the word about them scamming you. The power still lies in bounty hunters if we just unite to claim what we have worked for.

exactly and who doesnt want to unite if they are all got scammed by one bounty  ? it did happen many times on this forum and the scammers were already punished  . its sad to think that thier fame will not last a long time due to thier ignorance  . are they desperate enough to sacrifice some little funds for what they are going to earned later on   ?  i feel sorry for them and to the ones that will be doing this kind of tactics  .  hope this would also be an eye opener to the owner that will going to start a campaign  .

I wish there is some sort of avenue for bounty hunters to report this deceitful team members who will trick hunters into promoting their project only to end up not paying or even lock up 90% of the reward (example IMO),
Unfortunately, some hunters are too desperate to earn a $ that they will do anything or receive any harsh treatment over it,
You will be surprise many hunters don't share your view.

Indeed, some projects sometimes treat bounty hunters unfairly and reject payments with one side without asking for bounty hunter approval, because we are only considered free bounty hunters. They have various ways of not paying participants on the project. Suppose with the closing the form to send the wallet address for payment, or not counting the stake of the work of the participant. But there really is no way to stop this injustice.

I think you're right, the bounty hunter earns very little and can't cause a dumping situation at all. If the project marketing is very successful, investors have great hopes for the project, and the price of tokens will naturally rise.

the best way to stop this treatment is to leave it, because when the project no longer gets bounty hunters, the project will not be able to continue in the end due to lack of promotion and no big support available. developers should be aware of this, even though bounty hunters continue to work but they are still difficult to get investors especially when there is no promotion there by bounty hunters, then the project really will not be able to develop

So according to you the project/bounty managers treat you guys like a "beggars"? Of course they are going to treat you guys like beggars. Just look at all those bounty programs and the users. You guys are willing to work for them no matter how shit they pay you. If you think they treat you like a "beggar" then don't work for them. It is this simple. Once people starts avoiding those campaigns, they will be bound to improve their payment structure.
Anyways, those bounty campaigns are just waste of time.

unfair treatment of hunters is also triggered by questions that they cannot answer so they are overwhelmed with practical emotions. It can only give a negative reputation to the dev account on this forum, and it will not affect the assets promised to the bounty hunters. From the beginning, everything was not binding in the agreement after the campaign ended.

It depends because there were projects or managers who do treat out their participants fair and square but i do agree that most of them do treat these people as beggars.
I do have those unfortunate situations where i do still made some bounty hunting back in the past where you do keep on asking and begging on when is the distribution and
we know that most projects do really have that super delay on giving out bounties thats why i do completely stop after that.I agree on the words that this is indeed
an unfair treatment.

As a bounty hunter, of course we already feel bitter and sweet while waiting for the distribution of tokens from a bounty that we have promoted.  This is because the team that joined the bounty was not transparent and did not appreciate the services of bounty hunters who had helped to promote their projects.  And there are even some projects that make rules that harm bounty hunters when their projects are successful.  The bounty team should appreciate the hard work of the bounty hunters, because without their knowing it, the role of the bounty hunter is huge to promote their projects.

It's better to start discussing how to solve these problems not how to avoid them, bounty hunters job will be around for a very long time still I suggest we should promote projects from good rates bounty managers, they have respect for bounty hunters

Op said they were treated lesser than beggars. Personally i don't agree with you, if bounty hunter already doing their job to promote an ICO/project, they should be get paid after that or in a time dev promised to them. It's very unfortunate we are still seeing many project abandon their bounty hunters after ICO ends and they are ended up get scammed.

It is free labor. The hunters just have to accept it. This forum is lenient enough to allow these bounties to run even if they generate a lot of spam compared to the bitcoin paying campaigns. But often I have seen very generous managers giving out payments from their pockets before deciding to shut down the campaign in case scam was suspected. The concept of bounty came from giving something back to the community for promoting a new project. It was never meant to be a source of income.

There is no question of justice here. You can of course report this as a scam accusation to stop others from getting scammed or wasting their time. But the work time lost is lost. Its better to focus on bitcoin paying campaigns or develop some skills to do a side earning job here.

Why treated as beggar where there's an effort exerted maybe he's been exaggerated because he didn't been treated well by the company where he join on but if that's the really case then it's a certain sign that the owner of the project is a jerk and best to move on if we will not compensated since it's the life of bounty hunters here.

As a bounty hunter then expect for these things to happen.Sure thing that most hunters would have the same experience yet we know on how ICO market do become.
Lots of scams exist which results for an endless wait for bounty pay distribution.Project owner dedication and seriousness will reflect on how they do treat up their advertisers.
Deal with it and move on because you cant avoid the fact that these situation would happen.

Honestly, I have been in bounty campaigns for 3 years now, and maybe for the whole of 2019 I was not participating in anymore (unless you call a signature campaign a bounty,,, which it is strictly speaking) and I know the simple truths.

People who complain do not usually deserve to get anything at all. I have seen all types of bounty hunters and even as one myself, 99% of them are beggars and people who expect free money.

I think the world is unfair and we should get used to it. Stop supporting stupid projects and move on.

The only way is to stop participating, there's not even a guaranty that these coins/tokens will have potential in the market, so it's better to stop promoting these projects, it's like a gambling now, there is no guaranty that you will get rewarded and there's no guaranty that their tokens/coins will have value at all, investors are not entertaining ICO anymore bounty hunters should also stop.

Bounties are only worth promoting when market is in good shape, new projects have many things to worry about and sometimes they can find it very hard to fulfill the promises they make to bounty hunters, it's not always their fault

The only way to stop it is to report these projects in the scam sections if they are scamming bounty hunters so investors will not trust them anymore, there have been cases of reported projects that failed to reward their bounty hunters, and it does have an impact on their reputation because the report shows up in the search engine like Google.

Do not expect more with the bounty program because ICO or IEO have been left by many investors because they are vulnerable to fraud.
Be a smart bounty hunter by working on bounties that pay participants with bitcoin or ETH to avoid injustice from the project owner.

This only applies to bounty campaign that reaches the soft cap, but if the project did not reach the soft cap, and the roadmap will not proceed then it's no use to distribute the token because there's not going to be a platform that is going to be set up if the project succeeded, in getting funded they should thank bounty hunter by distributing the token in a timely manner. 

Again bitcoin paying campaign are still running well even if the market is a bit bearish. That shows that the demand for the leader of cryptocurrencies is always there. Hence I always ecourage people to move on from shitcoin bounties to bitcoin paying campaigns. But the truth comes out there because they are not willing to do this change since getting into a signature campaign needs a good post quality and bounty hunter have a poor one there.

Go a bit easy on them. They have tried to abuse ICO campaigns so much that they sold their logical thinking away. The demand for bounty hunters runs from the low economy countries and so they are still there but the number has reduced.

They still believe that these "stupid" projects will be able to become the next bitcoin. :D

This is the sad reality and has experienced all of these when I was very active in bounty campaign on ICO, these acts should be reported in the reputation and the scam sections, I have reported some of them and some of them had flags too, even bounty managers are tagged because they let these developers disrespect bounty hunters,  check some bounty managers and you will see some of them had red trust because of this

agree, by becoming a bounty hunter who is more considerate of risk, in the end the bounty maker will also consider paying bounty hunters with coins that at least have a good reputation in the crypto market. but when you continue to support their program without considering the risks, in the end they will continue to grow and there will be more and more bounty hunters who are treated unfairly

I don't know what are you talking about. There is no bounty campaign will pay you with token/coin which has good reputation since their coin still new on market, how could they pay you with good coin?
If you are as bounty hunter, joined in random bounty without doing any research, you should know the risk of not getting paid, it's not about you are treated unfairly. You are the one who must take responsibility about that