Bounty campaign is becoming absolutely useless.

[quality.crypto]

Yes, you are right but there are many companies have some potential towards their developments, that's why many people suggest the bounty hunters research before joining any bounty, one thing i can understand from the bounty hunters is that they don't have proper facilities to research about the company.

[bonker]

Even new projects are getting worthless so what will bounty can effect on the prices.

Most of the bounty managers won't care about the quality of their bounty participants which causing spams everywhere so it needs to be changed before the next bull run to ring the effectiveness to bitcointalk advertising.

[btcmegastar]

Even new projects are getting worthless so what will bounty can effect on the prices.

Most of the bounty managers won't care about the quality of their bounty participants which causing spams everywhere so it needs to be changed before the next bull run to ring the effectiveness to bitcointalk advertising.

It is impossible to find before their crowd sales because everything seems to be very good at the beginning of their crowd sales. So Bounty managers are doing their best to find the best project but the team is cheating the people by not developing the project. So we need to be very careful with the bounty campaigns.

[masterrex]

One of my friends launched a project and of course the bounty campaign was started too. After checking statistic via google analytics I found out that traffic coming from  Twitter + Instagram + Facebook = less than 3 % of total traffic.. I decided to try scammers method myself. Here is what I did.

1. Bought Twitter account with 2 000 followers for $ 10 (https://accsmarket.com/en/catalog/twitter/boosted) I was sure that twitter Audit will be less than 50% because followers are mainly bots. But twitter audit showed 87% and that was more than enough to enter any bounty campaign here on bitcointalk.

2. Same thing with Instagram. Account with 5 000 followers for  $10

3. Same with Facebook account.

4. Bought BTK account (member) for $50 (A lot of Russian scammers are selling accounts in the Russian board called "Baraholka" ) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=236.0 Prices are starting from $10 for Jr account and $800 for Legendary.


Do not buy accounts from the sources that I mentioned, because it is illegal.

As you can see, I could enter any bounty campaign, having all accounts mentioned above.

I'm sure that more than 50% of bounty participants are using the same scam scheme, for cheating. All this means, that a lot of  bounty campaign participants are advertising your project to bots... How is it possible that you have about 1000 participants in each bounty campaign.(about 3 000 in total) and you get less than 3% of the traffic to your project website ? And registered users are less than 0.5% I think it is much more better to allow only full members and above to participate in your campaign and even that will not guarantee you good results. Just 20-30 real account with real followers will do a much more better job.

I Agree in some points of your Thread But I disagree with the Title its Negative in form. But in some point you are right lots of scammers are joining the Bounties with multiple accounts they are taking advantage of the Bounty programs.

[Flangler]

Don't know about twitter and facebook campaigns, but BTT signature and translation bounties can be useful. I have discovered many great projects because of bitcointalk Signatures. Creative bounty(infographics, fanart etc.) or Youtube bounty also can be useful sometimes, hearing the most important info about project you want to invest in your native language can clarify some doubts .  So I do not agree with you good bounty manage by reliable bounty manager is useful.

[pealr12]

Im starting to leave the life of bounty hunting, every campaign that i joined in for the last 8 months i never made even 100$. I am losing hope  because of those scam icos.

[xsantana]

for social media campaigns now is not good, there are many jobs that I follow, and there are no results, campaign rules are increasingly complicated, not in accordance with the results obtained.
now a lot of fraud is irresponsible

[shoreno]

for social media campaigns now is not good, there are many jobs that I follow, and there are no results

not only on social media campaign but to the whole bounty campaign as a whole  . with the increasing number of ico frauds , bounty campaigns are also affected with it  . you are lucky if you can still find a bounty that is legit  . nowadays  , bounty hunters will not really care if the coins that the  will be recieving is profitable or not but as long as it has a value or it is already listed they can now be happy and contented with it  .

[bonker]

Even new projects are getting worthless so what will bounty can effect on the prices.

Most of the bounty managers won't care about the quality of their bounty participants which causing spams everywhere so it needs to be changed before the next bull run to ring the effectiveness to bitcointalk advertising.

It is impossible to find before their crowd sales because everything seems to be very good at the beginning of their crowd sales. So Bounty managers are doing their best to find the best project but the team is cheating the people by not developing the project. So we need to be very careful with the bounty campaigns.

When team is legit but they are scamming people means then there is no point on blaming the campaign manager but when a project team created with fake profile means it can be identified by the manager if he can do enough research on it.

[Caladonian]

for social media campaigns now is not good, there are many jobs that I follow, and there are no results

not only on social media campaign but to the whole bounty campaign as a whole  . with the increasing number of ico frauds , bounty campaigns are also affected with it  . you are lucky if you can still find a bounty that is legit  . nowadays  , bounty hunters will not really care if the coins that the  will be recieving is profitable or not but as long as it has a value or it is already listed they can now be happy and contented with it  .

Sadly right, bounty hunters is no longer interested with development, as long as they seen some value for their rewards they will sell it out without any wait, it's important for them to have some profits than being sorry waiting for nothing, it's a tough pick being lucky to have a bounty project that will deliver with a  lots of incident making icos a scammed business.

[tukagero]

Bounty becoming useless because the rate of icos that ending up into scam is increasing. No wonder why few bounty hunters are already quitting on thier job.

[Asatur]

Unfortunately you are right. Given the number of Scam projects and the low cost of many tokens, the time spent in Bounty could be spent on something else.

[Flickkk]

Im starting to leave the life of bounty hunting, every campaign that i joined in for the last 8 months i never made even 100$. I am losing hope  because of those scam icos.

Bounty campaigns are nowadays are not that promissing because as you can see almost every crypto currencies are now at their lowest price, that makes evey bounty hunters to loss hope and loss their profit at an instant. As of my experience i would say that there are several cause of these crptocurrencies drop and these are
Popularity- the popularity attracts many people to take interest on it and also are attracts scammers to take advantage of it.
Scammers- having to much scammers ,scamming plenty of users makes the investors to have there negative impression and are avoid investing.
Goverment - being popular as as crytocurrencies and are not a fiat currency, by these way goverment would be alert and  try to regulate the price of it in order to maintain some economic issues.
And by these issues plenty of people will no longer invest nd buy any of these cryptocurrencies that results price drops.
And etc.

[zhekinsp]

Bounty becoming useless because the rate of icos that ending up into scam is increasing. No wonder why few bounty hunters are already quitting on thier job.

Its not a job,so we don't have to call the people quitting their bounty hunting job.It is the real fact most of the people are making nothing from bounty hunting so better to use the other crypto earning ideas to make money rather than wasting lot of time on doing it again.If all the bounty hunters stop doing bounty hunting then we may see more bitcoin signature campaigns as well.

[dark08]

It sad to think that bounty campaign is becoming useless but this is true day by day more project are being launched in bitcointalk and most of them are useless no real intension to create product and in the end its turn to scam thats why most bountu hunter are quiting to promote their project.

[ifykiki]

This is the sad truth, hunters go to extreme lengths in various bounty campaigns and come out with stipends. Makes me wonder that if there are no bounty hunters, how would information spread very fast? It therefore means that bounty hunters are very important to this economy and should be treated right

[Arkham Knight]

Your post is somehow going into reality. Not because of scams and they don't contribute much success anymore but because of the new IEO hype. I'm expecting that in the future, the mindset of investors will think that ICO projects here much more likely to be a scam and then we bounty hunters will dump the token so they will totally avoid it and will only consider on IEO.

[Lanatsa]

It sad to think that bounty campaign is becoming useless but this is true day by day more project are being launched in bitcointalk and most of them are useless no real intension to create product and in the end its turn to scam thats why most bountu hunter are quiting to promote their project.

Normal for bounty hunters to do such thing and if we compared the numbers into previous years then it do really go down drastically but still
there are a few who do remain keep on advertising those non sure projects for the sake of possible money making with not much work.

It is already useless nowadays and i wont be surprised that one day that no bounty hunters will tend to join up their bounty program.

[lepbagong]

Bounty becoming useless because the rate of icos that ending up into scam is increasing. No wonder why few bounty hunters are already quitting on thier job.

Now with a sluggish market situation, events like ico that end in fraud are very much happening. indeed, very deep research is needed if you don't want to be fooled by this. but sometimes the goal really does not want fraud to occur because investors do not meet the minimum requirements resulting in also being affected in the direction of becoming a scam.

[panpine]

It's awful to have lots of people cheating bonus campaigns. We cannot have fairness in bounty campaigns. How ?s