95% of Bounties Are Bullshit For Everyone Involved

[terencio]

If you want to spread information about  your project, then social media is the perfect platform to advertise about your project. Some are scammers, but we can not generalize everyone.

[nemesio]

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.

Definitely not 95%. I'm sure there are really very few good bounties, but I don't think there are that few. For me the main thing is to choose the best project and I get it

[Patrix_1]

For sure, there are a lot of bounties that are pretty awful. This happens, because the team is dishonest and are reducing the pool and because of the poor management of the project. We need to be more careful with every bounty.

[andongdanisi]

It’s not that the bounty hunter has become useless, but the fraudster has postponed the ICO market, isn’t it? It's awful, we are trying to find the perfect project, but it ends up being a scam!

[bobthegrownup]

Some bounties can be very good. It all depends on how seriously the team takes the bounty

As a distribution mechanism, it still is one of the best ways to give out your token and also get some sort of value in exchange

I have expanded thoughts on the issue here

https://medium.com/talkbitcointalk/the-pros-and-cons-of-crypto-bounty-programs-e839fdf08c42

[presduterte]

You are not that wrong when you say that many bounty hunters do not really offer too much to the ico they are promoting, but now we need to ask ourselves what is the ico offering to the bounty hunters? And you will see that they are not offering too much either, they are just offering a bunch of coins that have no value yet and there is a high chance that those coins will never have any value at all.

Right, my point exactly. So why do bounty hunters continue? I really have no sympathy for either side of the equation.

[evichi]

I am worried about the very low value of the coins/tokens when they enter exchange. It also takes a long time to see tokens/altcoins enter market. Hope bounty hunting will not turn out to be a huge waste of time and resources.

[valek.bruno]

I increasingly begin to suspect that the percentage is really so huge, because so many projects today show that they are scam projects. No matter how much we want it, I probably think that it’s still better not to invest at all until you know 100%

[Kamidzy7]

you are confusing Iadrop with bounty!And different things if for example Idrop 95% is slag,that's for sure,but if the bounty there is only 30-50% of the slag,and the rest are worth something,at least something to sell,and some of them even will cost a lot of money

[akishang]

The figures you have provided were truly alarming. It should be fixed otherwise there will be no investors left for crypto. I am not sure how it will be fixed but it should ve done as soon as possible. I don't blame those investors for playing safe until the issue on  scan ICO's were rectified.

[UnDerDoG81]

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.

Even if the bounty is bullshit, it has also brought a lot of money to some people. And it draws hundreds of thousands of curious people and wants to engage in bounty. Only that said the bounty, and said that bounty is not bullshit

[farlack]

For sure, there are a lot of bounties that are pretty awful. This happens, because the team is dishonest and are reducing the pool and because of the poor management of the project. We need to be more careful with every bounty.

This has become possible in every company, and I can't understand the conditions in which we need to perform bounty. Many become angry at those managers and not payments from generosity.

[masterfu678]

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 found a lot of good projects. Now I just try not to pay attention to bad projects. and if you learn how to do it then you will not have any problems. You will not notice disgusting projects if you learn to see only quality

[lutcor]

I think that everything is not straightforward, because the situations are very different and now many people will govorit that it is probably better not to take part in the bounty and not invest, but I will continue to do so despite all the difficulties.

[Iykecollinz]

Certain generalized opinions are not always true, it is often termed a fallacy in logic, I know a lot of persons who have been discouraged by recent events in the market which is equally responsible for low project turnout. I can see some kind of painment from a frustrated hunter. We all have some kinda frustrations also and the reasons are obvious. But we are still hopeful that is why we are still here.

[holySaint]

Of course, it’s bad that such a situation in your case does not seem to me such that without patience and perseverance in this area it is impossible to succeed, and there must be an understanding that money is only the money that they have today and they left . Or do you control the process. Or the process controls you.

[vertinfos]

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.

Totally agree , I'd prefer to deliver quality ads to the project and to the project was rewarded this good profit , and I will remain then only the very few who will make bounty

[GermanGiant]

I think bounty for social campaigns is important marketing. That's one of the ways to promote the project via Twitter, media, Facebook, or Reddit. There are some bounty hunters who work honestly and sincerely, but there are also some who do multi accounts (scammers). I am among those who work honestly. That can be overcome with KYC. Because they have to fill in their personal data to claim the gift.

[Vilagra]

I think bounty for social campaigns is important marketing. That's one of the ways to promote the project via Twitter, media, Facebook, or Reddit. There are some bounty hunters who work honestly and sincerely, but there are also some who do multi accounts (scammers). I am among those who work honestly. That can be overcome with KYC. Because they have to fill in their personal data to claim the gift.

Social campaigns have only one usecase: project which they promote will be higher in google requests and nothing more, the most twitter and facebook participants have "follow back" friends and the aren't interested in retweets/reposts which participant makes.

[bering]

Social media still have big influence to attract new investors and that's why most of ICO projects still considering social media is good place to promote their projects but indeed i have to admit that majority of bounty hunter seems does not too care about potential the particular projects because usually after reach the payment day they mostly will dump the coins