Bounty campaign - Lately waste of time and energy

[waynechong1995]

When ICO successful -> Delay and hesitate to pay.

When ICO unsuccessful -> Delay and nothing to pay.

 

[Makka]

Lately, the vast majority of the ICO bounty campaign sucks and not worth your time to promote them.

What I found are the following from my own experience:

• Poor managed campaign without transparent communication and delay.
• Many will not even reach the minimum payout, and you will receive nothing for your effort.
• They accept too many people and when they count the stakes, you receive a little reward not worth the time.
• Too many bugs and slow access to bounty websites.

Some solutions should standardize the process of marketing the ICO.

• Pay bounty participants in ETH or BTC even if the project fails with money protected before the bounty.
• All bounty campaign should migrate to web based solutions to simplify the stakes distribution.
• Limit the people on each campaign to give a good value of your time and energy.

My advice: Think twice before promoting an ICO, we are human and your valuable time should be spent on something worth it for the effort.

I hope this concern will reach the moderators and leaders of this forum!

This is a timely reminder for all of us here, regardless of whether you are a bounty hunter, project member, moderator, or whatever.

If I may add some notes. This forum is too overcrowded already I guess. I think it would help this forum to be kept healthy and survive for a long time if some rules such as the following will be adapted:

1. Limit the entrants. Somewhere along 30-50 a month would do.
2. Adapt stricter measures so that all those reaching a certain negative % in trust should be permanently kicked out. Include those who have multi accounts and doing scams and spams.
3. Dormant accounts within a month or a couple of weeks should be permanently kicked out as well.

I have several more in mind but I think I am like ranting here.  

[sam53]

Lately, the vast majority of the ICO bounty campaign sucks and not worth your time to promote them.

What I found are the following from my own experience:

• Poor managed campaign without transparent communication and delay.
• Many will not even reach the minimum payout, and you will receive nothing for your effort.
• They accept too many people and when they count the stakes, you receive a little reward not worth the time.
• Too many bugs and slow access to bounty websites.

Some solutions should standardize the process of marketing the ICO.

• Pay bounty participants in ETH or BTC even if the project fails with money protected before the bounty.
• All bounty campaign should migrate to web based solutions to simplify the stakes distribution.
• Limit the people on each campaign to give a good value of your time and energy.

My advice: Think twice before promoting an ICO, we are human and your valuable time should be spent on something worth it for the effort.

I think manager campaign and devs distribute bounty can create 2 option payment:

1. Payment via ETH, BTC for people not want hold this coin from bounty, of course the rate will be like Signature campaign service or lower than depending devs bounty.
2. Payment via ICO token for people interesting this project, but not have money for investing (as me), the rate, stake still normally other bounty in current, but need have limit 150 members - 300 members for avoid spammer, maybe need high than rank Member or Full Member for join this bounty

[nicolas1979]

Lately, the vast majority of the ICO bounty campaign sucks and not worth your time to promote them.

What I found are the following from my own experience:

• Poor managed campaign without transparent communication and delay.
• Many will not even reach the minimum payout, and you will receive nothing for your effort.
• They accept too many people and when they count the stakes, you receive a little reward not worth the time.
• Too many bugs and slow access to bounty websites.

Some solutions should standardize the process of marketing the ICO.

• Pay bounty participants in ETH or BTC even if the project fails with money protected before the bounty.
• All bounty campaign should migrate to web based solutions to simplify the stakes distribution.
• Limit the people on each campaign to give a good value of your time and energy.

My advice: Think twice before promoting an ICO, we are human and your valuable time should be spent on something worth it for the effort.

That's the risk, take it or leave it. I believe they know what the best for them and worth or not. As long they take to promote ICO, it will be calculated with the risk. After the time they will learn about worth or not, even we say no to promote they will take it as a challenge. I will support everyone to take this challenge for little money and great experience. Hope will find success and good luck.

[Taskford]

There is a lot of bounty campaigns that are here for just hype and they are just trying to scam people because of their attractive site or project in the first place but in the end they are just scam who stole money from investors online and just be gone like a bubble.

[cuo]

it's very true, i sometimes also feel saturated and tired when working on Bounty and that pissed me off is not paid in accordance with our hard work, many bitcointalk users are popping up but there is no limit on the bitcoin hunters to join the campaign that makes the participants' payments very small.

Yes, I agree, should they implement a queue and have some quota that can be filled, so there will not be too many members of this forum that will follow it. But I think if the system is implemented, the devloper will not agree, because the purpose of bounty does attract as much attention.

[chesegrinder]

sometimes ICOs dont matter how many participant join the bounty cause as they want "the more the merrier " intuition which is in my opinion is not that good for the bounty hunters.... i suggest that they will give limits to participant in every rank.... they asking for the profile of account they will see the stats of the account holder in it so if they think that the participant is what they looking for by view his/her profile thats the time they will hire eh....

[erikalui]

I completely agree with you as when we participate in an ICO, it's not for a week or 2. It's for months and many times ICOs fail and the participants receive nothing in exchange for promoting the same and following the rules as well. Since hey also lose in the end, I can understand that they can't manage to pay their participants but when the ICOs earn, they have so many applicants participating in their bounty program that the ones that joined just one day before the end of the ICO also get a share in the rewards which is unfair to those that were participating since the beginning. Some pay in ETH/BTC but it happens only if they have been funded before.

[leonair]

Sorry but this is really true for some of the recent ICO that is happening and ended but the main factor here is yourself because you are the one who will join and participate in every aspect of a Bounty program so you must know first what is the potential of that ICO or else you will end frustrated. I hope there is some moderator or group of people that will organize every ICO that will rise.

[Hoganye]

Lately, the vast majority of the ICO bounty campaign sucks and not worth your time to promote them.

What I found are the following from my own experience:

• Poor managed campaign without transparent communication and delay.
• Many will not even reach the minimum payout, and you will receive nothing for your effort.
• They accept too many people and when they count the stakes, you receive a little reward not worth the time.
• Too many bugs and slow access to bounty websites.

Some solutions should standardize the process of marketing the ICO.

• Pay bounty participants in ETH or BTC even if the project fails with money protected before the bounty.
• All bounty campaign should migrate to web based solutions to simplify the stakes distribution.
• Limit the people on each campaign to give a good value of your time and energy.

My advice: Think twice before promoting an ICO, we are human and your valuable time should be spent on something worth it for the effort.

I hope this concern will reach the moderators and leaders of this forum!

This is a timely reminder for all of us here, regardless of whether you are a bounty hunter, project member, moderator, or whatever.

If I may add some notes. This forum is too overcrowded already I guess. I think it would help this forum to be kept healthy and survive for a long time if some rules such as the following will be adapted:

1. Limit the entrants. Somewhere along 30-50 a month would do.
2. Adapt stricter measures so that all those reaching a certain negative % in trust should be permanently kicked out. Include those who have multi accounts and doing scams and spams.
3. Dormant accounts within a month or a couple of weeks should be permanently kicked out as well.

I have several more in mind but I think I am like ranting here.  

LOL ! I think the rules #3 not reasonable with many member on this forum, because not everyone also have many free time for login account, write some post just avoid banned their account, most member in board mining are old member but they frequent inactivity, they only look to this forum when they feel the need find some people helps them to answer questions and they do not make money from campaign at here.

[pearlmen]

Lately, the vast majority of the ICO bounty campaign sucks and not worth your time to promote them.

What I found are the following from my own experience:

• Poor managed campaign without transparent communication and delay.
• Many will not even reach the minimum payout, and you will receive nothing for your effort.
• They accept too many people and when they count the stakes, you receive a little reward not worth the time.
• Too many bugs and slow access to bounty websites.

Some solutions should standardize the process of marketing the ICO.

• Pay bounty participants in ETH or BTC even if the project fails with money protected before the bounty.
• All bounty campaign should migrate to web based solutions to simplify the stakes distribution.
• Limit the people on each campaign to give a good value of your time and energy.

My advice: Think twice before promoting an ICO, we are human and your valuable time should be spent on something worth it for the effort.

Your findings is true as well as your recommendations however, the part of the recommendation you fail to mention is for one to be vigilant in joining any bounty campogn blindly. We have seen projects that have even paid *3 of its original proposal while some have been managed by reputable managers on the forum and they have delivered on their promises.. A campaign manager will state the details of the contract, you are not under compulsion to accept.

[anggriani]

I really agree with what you say, choose bounty must be careful. Otherwise we should be ready to bear the risk, that is not paid.
Start now dear your bitcointalk account, do not waste your signature for the scam project.

[irsada]

It seems that the hunters of the gift express all of their complaints here. I think we should be wise to choose a signature bounty
For what we sacrifice get the equivalent result.

[qiman]

I personally think we should be more grateful for these earning opportunities. If it were not for these bounty campaigns when I was out of a job we could have been homeless. I think the problem is everyone wishes for very fast money without doing much hard work. I agree, scammy ICOS are not good but we should be realistic that we should work to earn this decent pay many ICOS do offer.

[FrankNoland]

That is true, but sometimes you just have to be smart about it and choose wisely. I don't consider bounty campaigns as waste of time since I am doing it for fun and to see the projects I believe in succeed. No matter how much the rewards is, what I would appreciate is to see the project getting recognised and popular.

[wantangcfftc020]

I can not agree more, the bounty campaign should be well organized and there should be effective communication and bounty hunters should read the rules carefully before joining any bounties.

[renes]

It all depends on the campaign itself, With a good & professional Campaign manager to start with campaign will make everything flow smoothly. As for payments its all gamble for bounty hunters same goes way with the investors, Bounty Hunters spends time and effort while investors spends money.

Yes that's true, bounty campaign manager and project's team members are very important, and unfortunately most team members don't care about bounty campaing managements.

[rijaljun]

I'm not fully agree with your solution, usually project with BTC-based payment only give a little rewards.
And how can you recommend to migrate to web based while too many bugs over there?

For bounty hunters, they won't lost anything but yeah for investors, maka sure you know the technology before decide to invest.

[blockchainmarketus]

Coindash operated their bounties very well, I think it's my good luck to join.But most of the time , I have to agree with you , plenty of ICO bounties are not worth participating.

coindash is scam, how you say operated bounties very well. They stated that the wallet was hacked, I think it is just a trick to stole money, in fact CDT coin traded in etherdelta.

[ubeng07]

It all depends on the campaign itself, With a good & professional Campaign manager to start with campaign will make everything flow smoothly. As for payments its all gamble for bounty hunters same goes way with the investors, Bounty Hunters spends time and effort while investors spends money.

Yes that's true, bounty campaign manager and project's team members are very important, and unfortunately most team members don't care about bounty campaing managements.

Manager and the members it smoothly goes if they participate right but even they do that if the campaign failed we have nothing to do with that may accept the fact. But it is really important on participating to support that campaign.