Reality of ICO rating/listing website.

[The Cryptovator]

As well we know there is many ICO rating or listing site on internet. It's really worth? What is true value? Can we trust them blindly ?
All questions answer is no. We can't trust them blindly.
Mostly once you search on internet you will find ICO bench, listico, ICO bazaar, ICO time line, coinist, ICO hotlist and many more.
If they listing an ICO it means ICO is legit? Never. It can't legit only depend on they are listed.
You can see all their website they have warning or disclaimer that they are not provide investment advice. So what does mean that they are listed. Nothing.
They just get paid form ICO project and simply listed on their website.
Their rating depend on how much they are paid. They have listing package.
I am not against them. I just want to bring reality and true value about them. Those listed or review free at least we can trust a little bit their website. Because they didn't get paid for review. 
My suggestion that when you join ICO you can search their site but don't depend on their review. Research yourself about legit or not. Because you are going to invest there.

[Retty]

I think this is true of anything in life to be honest. Wherever there is cash- there are crooks.

Twitter is awash with scammy ICO pages that are basically just set up to farm followers. When looking for decent airdrops or bounties, i don't think it does any harm to do a bit of cherry-picking. By that i mean look for the better ones and dig a little deeper to see if they are legit. Look for a website and check the team out to see if there are real people with a little bit of history, what have they done previously, check their social media profiles if you want to be really thorough, borderline stalk them if necessary!  

Common sense has to play a part too. If something seems too good to be true then most likely it is. Don't get me wrong I have signed up for a few where i have thought "yeah whatever" and then they deliver the goods! But i'm a little more vigilant these days as there are TOO MANY red flag 'projects'.

I think there's going to be a lot of disappointed people when some of these so-called 'ICO's' don't actually drop any tokens to their ERC-20 wallets, simply because they were frauds from the start.

[mithrim]

My suggestion that when you join ICO you can search their site but don't depend on their review. Research yourself about legit or not. Because you are going to invest there.

In general, I would agree but a huge problem here is, that many of those sites just copy. It's a bit like the news media nowadays, someone publishes something and it gets copied and copied without any verification by the one who copies/publishes it. So research really becomes difficult as the pool of sources gets diluted and it's hard to find the viable ones.

[Salauddin1994]

My suggestion that when you join ICO you can search their site but don't depend on their review. Research yourself about legit or not. Because you are going to invest there.

In general, I would agree but a huge problem here is, that many of those sites just copy. It's a bit like the news media nowadays, someone publishes something and it gets copied and copied without any verification by the one who copies/publishes it. So research really becomes difficult as the pool of sources gets diluted and it's hard to find the viable ones.

i think maximum ICO scamming this time or fake owner, you ca seen last 3 month  many people losses her main money, do not depend only ICO.   

[Jundax]

Some reviews might be really helpful, but not at the ICO websites, id prefer independent experts
with a good reputation. Also some of the reviews are based bot only on subjective assessment

[kojoannan]

ICO rating and listing makes scammers to dupe a lot of investors base on their recommendations. Their packages comes with more money more rating value,and this can make any scam project pay more and their projects look legitimate, which can make a lot of people fall for thier scam projects.

[Dubska]

Ico listing sitess offer 2 options premium and free listings. Free allows you to list yoir ico but no added features, premium on the other hand gives you social media marketing snd other special offers to boost your ico.

[Lakai01]

Since the Obirium project I dont trust such sites anymore. Obirium had a 4.5/5 star rating at various ICO benchmarks. Their whitepaper was very week ("we want to build a fast browser"), everyone who read it knew that this project is either an exit scam or at least a complete waste of money

[huhhuh18]

One other fact we must be aware of is that, almost everything on crypto is a prediction/speculation and so it's not advisable to make strong financial decisions based on someone's ratings. The ICO rating sites are just like us here who'll use certain markers to give a project a status (but it doesn't mean the oeoject will definitely be a success

[pooya87]

when it comes to altcoin market and all that is related to it, you  can not trust any website and anybody that ranks them and gives you suggestions because they will always be biased. most of the times they are getting paid to be biased. even the big famous news websites have done this in the past and are still doing it from time to time because everyone loves to be paid. but also sometimes they are not paid to do it but they have a big stake in what they are advertising and if some newbies fall for their advertisement and buy into it then they will make profit!

[LucaBlight]

I used Review sites as my finder of trending ICO but before i invest in ICO i do my own research so much better to not rely on Review sites make your own research

[cryptoproLK]

one of the well-known ico reviewing site gave 4.5 score to a scam ico called hashcard and after scam is published they change there score to 2.7  .  That mean they are not publishing real details.

[odpadnik]

As well we know there is many ICO rating or listing site on internet. It's really worth? What is true value? Can we trust them blindly ?
All questions answer is no. We can't trust them blindly.
Mostly once you search on internet you will find ICO bench, listico, ICO bazaar, ICO time line, coinist, ICO hotlist and many more.
If they listing an ICO it means ICO is legit? Never. It can't legit only depend on they are listed.
You can see all their website they have warning or disclaimer that they are not provide investment advice. So what does mean that they are listed. Nothing.
They just get paid form ICO project and simply listed on their website.
Their rating depend on how much they are paid. They have listing package.
I am not against them. I just want to bring reality and true value about them. Those listed or review free at least we can trust a little bit their website. Because they didn't get paid for review. 
My suggestion that when you join ICO you can search their site but don't depend on their review. Research yourself about legit or not. Because you are going to invest there.

Yep,heard the same from people who were bringing their own ICO project to life...

Want a good review? Pay them 5-10 BTC
Want fake twitter / telegram traffic for a week? Pay them 4 BTC
Want fake this and fake that? Just pay, seems legit...

Best way I can think of, is actually google and deeply research every member of the ICO you're looking into. And even that MAY not be 100% bulletproof.

ON the other hand, there are certifications and so on, that can be backtracked to  official government institutions, that back such projects up... so that's good I guess.