Pretty decent idea, but I would be most concerned with the validity and reputation of where those hits on mentions come from. It's shockingly easy these days to buy mentions, buy reputation, buy recognition, and I might say that a lot of ICOs have found this to actually bring success. It's a multi-pronged approach in marketing that I'm noticing by some projects, ticking the boxes on some of your aspects: PR distribution, bounty campaigns... and then the blackhat methods: shilling (oh these come in the droves now) and SE-jacking.
The illogical thing is that they are still working - at the end of the day, a lot of coin investors do very little due diligence and buy on impulse and perception of masses. But I think it will soon dry up, and this should be the twilight era for the days of massive crowdfunding based only on online prominence.
Any thoughts?
Totally agree with you. We need to recheck the sources and we will do it.
