95% of Bounties Are Bullshit For Everyone Involved

[chipzeru]

Bounty hunters have become so useless that they now offer an ICO nothing. All their Facebook friends, Twitter followers, YouTube subscribers, whatever -- its all fake numbers and they always do the bare minimum to promote an ICO. Even ranks on this forum are faked. Merits are bought and sold, accounts can be farmed, purchased, for absolutely no purpose other than to spam this forum with useless information.

And what kind of traffic do they end up driving to an ICO website? Almost nothing. Most bounty campaigns literally have more participants than they will ever receive hits to their website, meaning the average traffic driven to a website by today's bounty hunter is less than 1 visit per month. Again, its because of all the fudged numbers. Everything is faked, nothing is real. There is no quality control whatsoever.

I really don't understand why anybody does social media bounty campaigns any more. Translations, graphic designers, website builders, app developers -- those are the real bounty hunters. Social media bounty hunters are just scum sucking parasites. They root through garbage trying to collect digital specs of nothing, leaving a trail of trash behind them.

Nobody wants to learn a thing about anything -- they just want "free money" as easily as possible, which usually ends up being worthless anyway. Would most of you just be sitting around doing nothing if you didn't consider this to be a means of "employment"? My guess is the answer is "yes." Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

I have same opinion. But you should also exclude from your list translations. Most of bounty translators do not care about the quality and they simply copy-paste into google translator and new translation is avaiable!
Social media campaigns were useful when there were only few ICOs.

You're right about the bounty translator. Whitepaper with good translation is a must in order to get better understanding about the project but i found that many of whitepapers don't have a good quality translation to my local language which makes the reader a bit confused.

[adrianto1995]

Hate to say but what have you saying is probably right...
Also, I see so many Bounty campaigns let many people join without limitation of participants. It makes many of us only receive a small amount of coins/tokens that worth of penny for our hard work...

[elloco4ever]

Hate to say but what have you saying is probably right...
Also, I see so many Bounty campaigns let many people join without limitation of participants. It makes many of us only receive a small amount of coins/tokens that worth of penny for our hard work...

You are right, the participants are beyond the limit this makes us to receive very low coins / tokens. If the value of cryptocurrencies are good then we can expect a good payment. Else our hardwork will go in vain, once I received $20 for a project which I worked for 8weeks. I was really disappointed at that time and even thought not to work for  bounty campaigns anymore. Few weeks later I got a good income from other bounty.

[Crypto Girl]

Then why bounty manager or dev still accepting those useless post and blogs? because their token also worth nothing. they can get in trouble if they use high marketing like adsense or hiring high quality influencer

Those useless posts and blogs will still be use as advertising, even how disgusting it is it will contribute to the ico.
Bounty managers are just here to manage the bounty and they care less whether it's scam or not, as long as they've been paid then it's fine.
This year is tough for cryoto space as so with the bounties, and it's up to us whether to continue or not. I know there's something inside us that wishing we can get back the old days.

[yanto@1977]

Bounty hunters have become so useless that they now offer an ICO nothing. All their Facebook friends, Twitter followers, YouTube subscribers, whatever -- its all fake numbers and they always do the bare minimum to promote an ICO. Even ranks on this forum are faked. Merits are bought and sold, accounts can be farmed, purchased, for absolutely no purpose other than to spam this forum with useless information.

And what kind of traffic do they end up driving to an ICO website? Almost nothing. Most bounty campaigns literally have more participants than they will ever receive hits to their website, meaning the average traffic driven to a website by today's bounty hunter is less than 1 visit per month. Again, its because of all the fudged numbers. Everything is faked, nothing is real. There is no quality control whatsoever.

I really don't understand why anybody does social media bounty campaigns any more. Translations, graphic designers, website builders, app developers -- those are the real bounty hunters. Social media bounty hunters are just scum sucking parasites. They root through garbage trying to collect digital specs of nothing, leaving a trail of trash behind them.

Nobody wants to learn a thing about anything -- they just want "free money" as easily as possible, which usually ends up being worthless anyway. Would most of you just be sitting around doing nothing if you didn't consider this to be a means of "employment"? My guess is the answer is "yes." Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

Mostly I agree with you but angry or complaint is not worth for you or us, scam bounty program is part of risk. If you can share your parameter to chose the right bounty program it will help us to create income, not only you mad everyone have the same feeling. Or you can share how to make money out side crypto market, many good post you can make besides complaint.

[CryptoAssasin]

These are all correct and the disappointing part is that we as a bounty hunters are promoting a scam project and became a victim of this scheme. 95% is too much to give for scam ICO because there are still some projects with real motive and dedication to develop the project. I will only give 70% to 80% are scam ICO so i always apply deeper ressarch before joining the bounties. Im not in to social media campaign because it is a waste of time honestly.

[Fluxtorrence9]

I'm no surprised cryptocurrency has become a target for scammers and its nothing anymore for bounty hunters ,ethereum has become the easiest source for scammers through erc20 tokens so I agreed that 95% of  bounties are trash and not worth the time

[Aragorn_125]

Currently there are many bounty hunters who only use a Newbie account. Which means they have created a new account, maybe not just one.
Lots of people who have multiple accounts.
better in the future, allowed to join the Bounty is a minimum Jr.Member account.

I also often find people who intentionally use my account username to follow the bounty.

In this I fully agree with you, they made a free pie for everyone from the bounty, but investors with the title of senior member will not participate in them knowing what they will get as a result. Therefore, this work should fall on the shoulders of the managers themselves.

[Indrawan77]

Social media is one of the great way to promote, the developers and marketing need the influence of the followers in social media, unfortunately I agree that most of the bounty hunter now don't really care about promoting the project, they just care about making money, and going to dump the coins as soon as it hit the market

[asus09]

Bounty hunters have become so useless that they now offer an ICO nothing. All their Facebook friends, Twitter followers, YouTube subscribers, whatever -- its all fake numbers and they always do the bare minimum to promote an ICO. Even ranks on this forum are faked. Merits are bought and sold, accounts can be farmed, purchased, for absolutely no purpose other than to spam this forum with useless information.

And what kind of traffic do they end up driving to an ICO website? Almost nothing. Most bounty campaigns literally have more participants than they will ever receive hits to their website, meaning the average traffic driven to a website by today's bounty hunter is less than 1 visit per month. Again, its because of all the fudged numbers. Everything is faked, nothing is real. There is no quality control whatsoever.

I really don't understand why anybody does social media bounty campaigns any more. Translations, graphic designers, website builders, app developers -- those are the real bounty hunters. Social media bounty hunters are just scum sucking parasites. They root through garbage trying to collect digital specs of nothing, leaving a trail of trash behind them.

Nobody wants to learn a thing about anything -- they just want "free money" as easily as possible, which usually ends up being worthless anyway. Would most of you just be sitting around doing nothing if you didn't consider this to be a means of "employment"? My guess is the answer is "yes." Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

I fully agree with what you say, there are many bounty hunters who violate the rules especially in their campaign work.
this is a fact that happened, but however there are moderators here who know that better, and I think design by design is always trying to overcome problems like this. for example now, to get merit is not easy.

[joybella]

Let's face it, utility tokens are barely useless without large mass of community and to even add to the above bounty campaign is the cheapest way of advertising your project.

[Karlinz]

In as much as I believe you title about having such bounties, I notice you really sound pained and some of the positions are lacking on objectives, If you had been a developer or have tried promoting your project by involving hunters and you do not get results via them then we could understand with you. The developers and the bounty managers already know best and why they still employ all these in promoting projects. If a particular is not yielding result, it would rather become useless. So I think the bounty managers and developers already know what they want and the best channels to promote them

[joykulot]

I think there are few people do this, but what is wrong about free money. All of us joining because we want to earn. And I believe because of joining, we learn about blockchain.

[presduterte]

Let's face it, utility tokens are barely useless without large mass of community and to even add to the above bounty campaign is the cheapest way of advertising your project.

I accept that a lot of ICO advertising is fake and just to make it look like an ICO is more important or popular than it actually is. However, a lot of social media bounty hunters are the same way -- fake and unimportant. They might have 5,000 Facebook friends and not 1 real life friend who cares about anything they have to say. Frankly I don't understand why there's bounty campaigns at all. Just seems like a tremendous waste of time and resources for everyone involved.

Nobody answered my question: what's the average amount of money you make per month in your bounty hunting, in terms of dollars? $30? $300? $3? I wouldn't be surprised if its actually $0 for a lot of people, who would perhaps be completely unemployed if they weren't doing this, and they just need a hobby or something to fill their time.

If you had been a developer or have tried promoting your project by involving hunters and you do not get results via them then we could understand with you.

Yes, this was the case.

The developers and the bounty managers already know best and why they still employ all these in promoting projects... So I think the bounty managers and developers already know what they want and the best channels to promote them

No, they really do not. A lot of bounty managers also try to do as little actual work as possible and get the most coins/tokens for themselves by manipulating the bounty. If they aren't rewarded on a performance basis they have to incentive to actually contribute to the ICO in a meaningful way. You would think they would want their share of the ICO coins/tokens to be worth money but a lot of them are too shortsighted to see this.

[presduterte]

I think there are few people do this, but what is wrong about free money. All of us joining because we want to earn. And I believe because of joining, we learn about blockchain.

Holy cow you have 1477 posts and 1 merit! That's simply astounding! There's no such thing as "free money." If you're "earning" something then you're working for it, even if it just means spamming social media and this forum. I have a hard time believing you've actually learned much about "blockchain" however.

[cupruri]

Not 95 percent are garbage. There are still some great bounties left. Have you already took part in 100 bounties or did you do 5 campaigns, without any research and go scammed? Just be more advised and select better.

[AristoteI]

The situation in which there is a very large number of projects that are not promising - is the norm. This fact contributes to a more careful selection of projects for investment. And do not forget that venture investment is one of the most risky types of investment.

[killerfrost]

Hate to say but what have you saying is probably right...
Also, I see so many Bounty campaigns let many people join without limitation of participants. It makes many of us only receive a small amount of coins/tokens that worth of penny for our hard work...

Why do they have to limit participants? They want as many participants as possible, because their ICO will be well known. Only we think that we should limit the number of participants because of our personal interests and of course they will never do our will

[Naitik]

Bounties are not bullshit actually all the ico's are suffering from great loss due to people are less interested due to too much scam projects. There is nothing wrong in the bounties.

[frchowe214]

I wouldn't say 95% it's a bit of a high number but certainly the majority. The low end ones just turn into worthless shitcoins, But spare a sympathetic moment for those that invested