🧐 Bounty vs Buying likes, views, followers etc

[Krislaw]

You as a bounty hunter should know the answers already.
Buying views and all of that won't give the project the right audience/result they want. And also, this project owners sometimes don't have lot of funds to start this except they raise money from ICO/IEO and for them to be able to, they allocate some percentage from their supply(which doesn't have a worth because it's not listed or trading) to bounty promotion because it cost them nothing.
Bounty hunters will help them get what they want almost at the price of nothing because no value for the token yet.

[bussybuddy]

Bonjour, community. I have quite big experience with Bounty since 2016. It's not only participation, but also creation and managing. And I was always asking my self since 2017 end same question. Why the hell project managers prefer bounty rather than just buying cheap likes, views, followers / subs, comments, saves etc? From my understanding, bounty hunters are not the community of the project they work with. ALl they want to do is to run away with BTC after they sell their tokens.

At the same time, when you buy likes and other stuff, it has many advantages:
1) you do not give tokens to the ones who don't need them
2) buying activities will cost you $ cents
3) the "smart" purchase of likes, views and followers can push you to the social media top (youtube, instagram etc)

And yes, as an example, you may find YouTube views for 10$ per 1,000 views, but it is an insane price. It costs around 1$-2$ normally.

If you were ICO,IEO founder, what would you choose?

If they use this approach for their project then I believe that 100% they will fail. They don't have any real followers and no people invest in the project. The main purpose of bounty is to impact many people and make them aware of the project and invest in it

[Avirunes]

What Jawhead said in this post is quite true: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5253749.msg54572591#msg54572591 . I am also a Bounty manager and would like to add some more reasons. Project managers don't have enough time to promote. Its very hard to keep on promoting in different platforms and in such short time. Second is "audience", a single man or individual can't cover a big audience as group of people do. Third is "buzz" the buzz created by bounty participants is much more real than the buzz created by project social handles.

[bison]

Bonjour, community. I have quite big experience with Bounty since 2016. It's not only participation, but also creation and managing. And I was always asking my self since 2017 end same question. Why the hell project managers prefer bounty rather than just buying cheap likes, views, followers / subs, comments, saves etc? From my understanding, bounty hunters are not the community of the project they work with. ALl they want to do is to run away with BTC after they sell their tokens.

At the same time, when you buy likes and other stuff, it has many advantages:
1) you do not give tokens to the ones who don't need them
2) buying activities will cost you $ cents
3) the "smart" purchase of likes, views and followers can push you to the social media top (youtube, instagram etc)

And yes, as an example, you may find YouTube views for 10$ per 1,000 views, but it is an insane price. It costs around 1$-2$ normally.

If you were ICO,IEO founder, what would you choose?

If they use this approach for their project then I believe that 100% they will fail. They don't have any real followers and no people invest in the project. The main purpose of bounty is to impact many people and make them aware of the project and invest in it

that is because there are indeed very few bounty participants who also participate in investments in the same project. when there is no strong community support, a bounty hunter will not be good either. even though they were successfully registered in the exchange, I'm sure soon they will be discarded.

[shaheer001]

I think there is no comparison of Bounty VS Buying likes, Followers, retweet. As every one knows The project start any bounty program has no cost as the project owner pays the rewards from the token/coins and get real investors as all the hunters are real and promote on their real accounts with good followers. Buying followers, retweet or likes is almost done by bots and the project will need real money to purchase and why he will do it as it is totally loss of money and no investors will come as the bots will do it.

[Stanlo]

Bonjour, community. I have quite big experience with Bounty since 2016. It's not only participation, but also creation and managing. And I was always asking my self since 2017 end same question. Why the hell project managers prefer bounty rather than just buying cheap likes, views, followers / subs, comments, saves etc? From my understanding, bounty hunters are not the community of the project they work with. ALl they want to do is to run away with BTC after they sell their tokens.

At the same time, when you buy likes and other stuff, it has many advantages:
1) you do not give tokens to the ones who don't need them
2) buying activities will cost you $ cents
3) the "smart" purchase of likes, views and followers can push you to the social media top (youtube, instagram etc)

And yes, as an example, you may find YouTube views for 10$ per 1,000 views, but it is an insane price. It costs around 1$-2$ normally.

If you were ICO,IEO founder, what would you choose?

Buying likes, followers and retweet is worse, how will they conduct that? This won't have better impact on the project itself compare to using Bounty hunters, it seem you are one of those who belief that bounty campaigns have no effect on new projects, well it's all lies, bounty campaigns still attracts investors to this day, way better than your option

[FairUser]

Buying likes and followers dont give you real people. Most of all will be bots or people who dont care about your project. Thats why bounties exists

Yes, if they buy followers, I believe that with only $ 1,000 they can get more than 10,000 followers. But 99% of them are bot or fake account, it will not be able to make their project popular in this market. Bounty will be the best option to educate people about their projects

[Rodeo02]

Buying likes and followers dont give you real people. Most of all will be bots or people who dont care about your project. Thats why bounties exists

this one is the right answer, it will not give them the right target for the project they are creating if they are just buying a followers and most of them is fake and not real people  so how will you start a project if you don't have the potential investors that you need to start.

[Coin_trader]

Because project managers can actually pay participants with their own crypto instead of real money, which something they want to make more and not less. The thing with buying likes, views, followers, etc are those are very easy to be found out. It hurt a project's reputation if they got caught by buying fake likes, views, followers since people saw that acts mostly found in scam project.

Besides that, Team main purpose is to spread the name of project thru the used legit social account and gather an organic impression. The only problem about bounty hunters nowadays are most of them are using multiple account and there followers/friend are products of follow back service or some random dummy account. Technically speaking it's still the same result. The only advantage of bounty campaigns are as you said, they can pay in the project token itself.

I stop participating bounty campaign especially social media because I notice that most of participants are cheaters and there social media account is not legit. It's really frustrating to see that you will get a penny after a month of participation.

[pakhitheboss]

Projects do not want robots as they do not attract investors or help in creating a community. Projects need people to create a community and attract investors. This community is created using the help of Bounty hunters.

[Pumuckel21]

So you must keep in mind that not all bounty hunter are there for the reward, some of them are real believers in the project. Therefore bounties are a good way to give something back to your early believers and strengthen the community. Besides this you might attract new project admirers within your bounty participants if they really interact with the project.

[prmotion]

It's so funny to answer same questions again and again. 
But I understand all those BH here 

[pilosopotasyo]

It's so funny to answer same questions again and again.  
But I understand all those BH here  

Hey it's like you ask for a poll and everyone gave their opinion on the poll it's not the same answer it's just their own opinion apart from the opinion of others, you are just saying this because you lost your case, so I see you are providing fake views and fake hype, no wonder.

[holly.ball8]

Besides that, Team main purpose is to spread the name of project thru the used legit social account and gather an organic impression. The only problem about bounty hunters nowadays are most of them are using multiple account and there followers/friend are products of follow back service or some random dummy account.Technically speaking it's still the same result. The only advantage of bounty campaigns are as you said, they can pay in the project token itself.

I stop participating bounty campaign especially social media because I notice that most of participants are cheaters and there social media account is not legit. It's really frustrating to see that you will get a penny after a month of participation.

True, it isn't any different than direct buying likes, shares, and views anymore. I think some bounty managers know quite well about it but they don't care too since as long as it helps the pr process. Like you, I also stop doing any social media bounty since you can't win against one person with their bot accounts. Still, buying likes, shares, and such are 'underground option' that project never going to do it at public.

[hatshepsut93]

Because bounties are literally free promotions, you create tokens out of thin air and pay them for the services of bounty hunters. And people who run ICO/IEO don't care about the price of their token, they get their money with the initial sale, after it ends their job is done and they can ride into the sunset while suckers are left with bags that will become worthless rather soon.

But high profile altcoins can be easily employing directly paid promoters/bots, XRP is infamous for having an army of twitter bots, and I'm sure projects like TRON or EOS have something like that too.

[sorrros]

This could be a reason why we see a decrease in number of bounty campaigns, but also in the number of bounty participants. Bounty participants that are more skilled are promoting other business in a more professional way and the ICO projects are using new ways how to attract investors.

[thesmallgod]

Op is still not yet know that most of the views, likes and comment being sold by the smtp platform are not organic,they are delivered by the bots.You can buy as many views as you like on some platforms such as followiz but they have zero influence on your token sales. Even some platforms such as youtubes now recognized that there are bot softwares used to gain more likes, views and comments on video and they have started removing them and possibly ban the accounts. It is better to run ads on crypto related platforms than buying views but many of them will rather choose bounty option because it is generally cheap.

[Rubick99]

Buying likes, views, followers and kind stuff like these will kill the project itself. Because that will be detected as spam from the socia media platform. When it started, that many same activities in a time and people who just watch it will report that as spam. So, that buying property like this only take money.
Marketing team created a campaign isn't for selling token only, they also build a community to support them.

[suvo05]

Bounty campaigns are not only about follow, like, comment. Bounty is given for contains making, blog writing, white paper and page translation, signature campaigning, tweet and retweet, FB share and posting. All of these can't be manged with cheap like, or viewers.   

bounty hunters are not the community of the project they work with. ALl they want to do is to run away with BTC after they sell their tokens.

Certainly, that's not true. They become part of the community. If not, then why ICO,IEO giveaway some tokens in terms of airdrop or telegram campaign ?

[gundala]

~ It is better to run ads on crypto related platforms than buying views but many of them will rather choose bounty option because it is generally cheap.

This is more effective and right on target. By using advertising services on large platforms related to crypto, it will definitely give a good image to potential investors. At least, the project is serious in promoting, for the sake of the project's progress.
Holding a bounty campaign is a popular way. Whether cheap or not, I think it's very relative, many factors make it change. Seeing the number of projects that have also utilized the bounty to date, this means that this is a fairly effective way to promote the project, as well as forming a large community.