Why don't you stop rushing to promote bounty from a scammed bounty manager

[Strotman]

Unfortunately, bounty hunter doesn't have an employment agreement or anything like that when he joins the campaign. In other words, it is not protected in any way and will not be able to do anything if the project representatives behave inappropriately. I don't even know what to come up with to protect us. Can someone have any ideas about this?

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[Crypto_lion]

So introductions to KYC in a bounty means the bounty manager is a scammer? There are few moves like this from some old bounties and it's the project team fault not the bounty manager, if the team decide to change rules there is nothing that the bounty manager can do about it, if you don't want to work for nothing you will have to comply

As said by the OP the KYC is decided by the team and not the bounty managers . It's on the users to decide if they want to participate in bounty if it's needing Kyc. Also the project should be clear about the Kyc requirements from the beginning.

[Princejebs]

This is much reason why hunters should also do background check on the manager before joining the campaign. There are many managers here who are conscious of not getting their name tainted. They have strict rules that makes they less patronise by dev team that might end up scamming the community. A lot of known managers have also end up quiting bounty management to also join signature campaign services because they could not cope with evolving scam coming from the bounty they have managed

When I see a bounty, the first thing I check is the manager username and rank, this will make my personal research easier about the project.
There are many things one should consider when doing Bounty for any project, it includes :

• The team is very important and their previous role in blockchain/CryptoCurrency.
• The Whitepaper ( This is very important )
• The website and their social channels ( some launch their channels as soon as they plan public and private sales which is red flag for me.
• The road map and exchange listing, I don't want to work and end up with a token or coin I wouldn't be able to sell.

[Gotumoot]

I also think of the same thing why does some hunters rush on joining bounty when their previous bounty ended they should choose carefully or wait for a deserving bounty to promote.
I feel like some of them doesn't really care and just want to join any bounty that they could and try their luck on it.

[suzanne5223]

Actually, it will never stop because 95% of all bounty hunters dont do adequate reaearch about the project they advertise and what they do is rely on the bounty manager research about the project which does proof the project not to be scam. Besides, if you check the patrol page of this forum which is used to check the newbies recent posts you'll that newbies are joining bounty like bots.

We don't need to express impossibility on bounty issue here.

If we are discuss the reason why people rush to promote scam bounty we cant exclude the expression of impossibility in bounty so that naive bounty hunter will be aware of their mistakes.

but it can stop if we keep being conscious of it. Although the bounty hunters don't do proper research on their own

Conscious? Check the patrol link i posted and youll see that most bounty participants are not conscious just a little.

but if managers that are honest keep taking good project, then that is enough protection for hunters.

You can put all the job on bounty managers cause they are also a victim of scam project at some point.

[Crypto_lion]

I also think of the same thing why does some hunters rush on joining bounty when their previous bounty ended they should choose carefully or wait for a deserving bounty to promote.
I feel like some of them doesn't really care and just want to join any bounty that they could and try their luck on it.

Of course I agree with being patient and not to rush into any new bounty campaign as soon as the last one ends. But sometimes you can never avoid getting scammed if the project doesn't want to pay the hunters from the very start.

[JeffBrad12]

So introductions to KYC in a bounty means the bounty manager is a scammer? There are few moves like this from some old bounties and it's the project team fault not the bounty manager, if the team decide to change rules there is nothing that the bounty manager can do about it, if you don't want to work for nothing you will have to comply

As said by the OP the KYC is decided by the team and not the bounty managers . It's on the users to decide if they want to participate in bounty if it's needing Kyc. Also the project should be clear about the Kyc requirements from the beginning.

In fact, that if the KYC implementation will always be decided by the team at the end of the campaign. I can only mention some bounty that's fair to mention the KYC verification when it was getting started like radix.

So many bounties have decided this at the end of the campaign. The bounty manager must also ask this since it was getting started or try to make sure if there will be a high chance for the KYC to be implemented to the participants or it will become mandatory for the participants to complete the verification.

[Traderbtcc]

Well, I don't know if a day like this will ever come when bounty hunters will stop promoting scam projects,nowadays its hard to know which bounty manager can be trusted, because the scam bounty managers normally open new BTT accounts for every new scam bounty, so its hard to tell which one is gonna pay,but I believe if every bounty hunter do a good research about bounty project before joining, I bet that the rate of scam bounties will definitely decrease.

[JeotQ]

Some bounty managers have been known to promote scam projects and I believe because they have users who rush to sign up, they keep being agents of scam project and not escrowing rewards.
More is that, the reasons bounty has been paying shit is because you rushing over it and they decide to list below, compare it with 2017 coins.

I believe some users are getting worried and fade up on lack of fulfilment of bounty promises at the end because the promises are not met as you either get scammed or the worth of your thousand units is = to a dollar ($1) at the end of many weeks.

When you work for months and dump total worth for $15 (rare case) if you get up to that, you have just paid for your data usage. What about your time? Inconveniences etc.

They take advantage of hunters that participated and not pay reward with different excuses which are :

1. KYC introduced while it was not started from beginning:
Know your customer is actually not necessary in a decentralized setting, all you need is to guide yourself or company because decentralized system should guarantee freedom. Why then introduce it at the end, to prevent participants from receiving their labour. I believe most times, this is to push out because if they are genuine, they should state it clearly from beginning that KYC is a necessary factor to receive reward. Example is bubbalex, his bounty has been one of the most sincere type I have read, from beginning to end is the way it is done. To
time for listing, times and dates for distribution.
All information about the growth of the project in different SM channels, medium, Twitter, telegram. No KYC introduced at the beginning and to the end.

2.The excuses of launch of website, app, main net, sales , soft cap are all reason you should understand you are wasting your time especially when you get shit pay.

What you can do if you like the project and you are not sure of  the promises

Save up to buy if you don't have money, you can wait for it when it is listed and dumped, you buy cheap.


If you have not checked this thread
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5230885.msg53975958#msg53975958

I believe that what anyone can do if they like a particular project and they aren't sure of the project's success is to invest on what they can afford to lose, there is no guarantee that the coin will surge, it's not about buying cheap, it's about the quality of the project and the team behind it, but to say the truth it's safer to promote the project if bounty campaign is available, you aren't investing money but only your time.

[rodskee]

in some case it is the Hunters mistakes why they are becoming a victim of scam projects,Look at them being  hunter for long years now yet still putting their KYC and filling the form.
and also i know some of them already knew the risk but that is what it is since they use bounties as bread and butter.
also some of them has multiple account in which on going in other bounties so even if they lose in one the others will give them profit.
so basically the Thread is good but lets face it,sometimes hunters accepted being victimized even before they joined lol.

[palle11]

So introductions to KYC in a bounty means the bounty manager is a scammer? There are few moves like this from some old bounties and it's the project team fault not the bounty manager, if the team decide to change rules there is nothing that the bounty manager can do about it, if you don't want to work for nothing you will have to comply

Some bounty managers have not properly contracted the agreement and that is why some come in the middle to ulter agreement. But KYC is not needed for bounty to be proven as genuine. Bubbalex in his bounty has not requested for KYC but email verification and rewards is released with ease, that is the way his is done.