How to move on if you've failed to meet the due date of a bounty campaign

[cheezcarls]

I know that most of you can relate to my situation where I failed to submit my entries on or before the due date of the bounty campaign. Not just once, but a few times already. I know how it feels, as I've felt the same way too. However, I've learned a lot and finally getting used to it.

If you are one of those bounty hunters who still struggle moving forward because of not submitting on time, here are some of my helpful tips:

1. Stop whining

Let me ask you. If you whine for hours to a day, do you think it's productive? Absolutely not! Whining is a time-waster. I know how it feels. There's a time that I've focused spent hours, or a day or two just to finish one creative and entertaining video. But when it's the time to check the submission form, it's already closed. Man, that hurts a bit right? The point is this. Don't just wait for the deadline date. Work earlier than that. If you keep whining, you've lost so many minutes, hours or a day that is suppose to be the time you work on your next assignment or so. Makes sense?

2. Appeal when you can. Learn to accept and move forward if bounty manager doesn't give exceptions despite the best work you've got

Of course, just don't believe that there is no hope anymore. However, not all bounty managers can consider your appeal to reconsider your entry despite not submitting it on time. Recently, it was my fault that I was never updated about their new deadline submission on Telegram, which wasn't updated on their bounty thread. I tried to appeal, but there are no more exceptions according to the bounty manager despite all of the long hours of work. There are some cases too in which my submissions are considered manually by some certain bounty managers even if I didn't make it on time.

At first, you may feel so down because it feels like you don't deserve it. But you must learn to accept and move forward, because bounty tasks are all about risking your time. Instead, learn to be grateful and thankful. It's all about lessons learned. There's no way you could go back in time, but keep moving forward.

Appeal if you can, despite there are no guarantees that they could say yes.

3. Don't blame the bounty manager for closing the forms just as you're about to submit reports. Blame yourself for not making it on time.

Again! This really stings a bit for us. Assuming that you wrote a top-tier blog post about a project for so many hours, only to see that they are no longer accepting submissions. The thing is, do not blame the bounty manager for his or her decision. You have no one to blame but yourself. I know this hurts, but it's the reality. Once you accept blaming yourself, you learned and improve in making decisions for you not to repeat the same mistake again in other projects that you are joining.

4. Seek a different opportunity from them if you failed to submit your bounty entries on time.

You just don't stick to be a bounty hunter all your life, you know? It's time that you should be more than that. Like in my case, I made a video about a project and the CEO likes it. The CEO would contact me to ask if I can make another video for them. And I said yes without any questions at all if they want to pay me or not. I happily made an interview video about their project, and after they see that, they've asked me for my ETH address which I was paid unexpectedly. I've experienced that in some few projects too, which I offer them a free interview with no cost, but they did pay me in an unexpected way.

You can be more by just being their ambassador, content creator or whatever God-given talent you have to help the project grow. Think outside of the box, not just being a bounty hunter only.  

5. More opportunities are awaiting. Don't just stick to one or a few opportunities (and make sure they're legit too)

In order for you to experience less disappointment, don't just stick to a few opportunities. Of course, we all know that 90% of the bounty campaigns are scams, or failing ICOs, or token dumps after exchange listing. Make sure that you choose projects that are kinda legit by going over to their website, team's LinkedIn accounts, roadmap, whitepaper, social media channels, partnerships and events, etc. You can't just simply join a bounty campaign because of the hype, but always look beyond than that.

But once you've decided to join that campaign, always put it in your mind about the "time risk" that you're taking. Also, you should be mentally and emotionally prepared when unexpected circumstances happen such as website shutdown, exit scam, etc. In other words, you must know how to manage your risks, both time and money.

I hope these tips and advice of mine helps you all, especially bounty hunters who can relate. Cheers and have a nice day!

[leea-1334]

Ah this really brings me back to the old bounty days which I do not miss at all!

It never happened to me,,, I did not participate in too many though, I made the mistake of joining projects I thought were cool and did it for MONTHS to realize later they would never pay out (or tokens worth zero). Since then, I just stuck to my single campaign on here. No worries about deliveries and payments, just chat and discuss as I normally do:)

[nicecrypto]

lol! this is good and at same time funny post, the problem is many hunters don't always accept that they are at fault for missing out on a campaign, they rather want to blame the team and if possible tag the project to be bad, many hunters don't read rules of the campaign they join, they just assume and carry on, but when they now see the consequence of their negligence they play the blame game,
hope this type of hunters will read and learn.

[hd49728]

Funny and it does not work if managers a professional and carefully check.

Some bounty hunters make "reserved" posts without a single word to discuss with others. Hours later, after the deadlines goes away, they come back to edit reserved posts. They know managers of bounties don't check a few minutes or hours after the deadlines is hit. It is bounties, not signature campaigns are paid in bitcoin.

I don't advise anyone to do this because it is shame to get money with this style. Edited posts hours later are out of discussion context and it is worthless for companies.

I think your topic belong to Service Discussion (Altcoins)

[Ezravdb]

Experiences like this I often feel when the week is due but I only missed one post to qualify for a stake in that Week.  From that experience I do not blame the other party but because of our negligence in other activities that make us forget that the weekly Bounty assignment we are participating in is due.

[cabron]

I've learned to move on fast. Time is ticking and there are just many things to do than blaming and whining the bounty manager since the information after all can be seen in plain sight. Since I just didn't see the future of how scam the project is from the beginning, its then time to learn and begin to see what others are saying about joining campaigns that pay tokens.

[ryzaadit]

I have a simple and straight point for this.

Get's a real-life job and stop using bounty for your main income, just get a real job and you can save a few percentages of your payment jobs to do trade or want to try investment option. The problem of all bounty hunter has always just because he got some big payment from bounty/airdrop, he make this activity for his main income. Now when the come none successfully project in the past 5-6 month, he confused from where to look some income.

[coin-investor]

I know that most of you can relate to my situation where I failed to submit my entries on or before the due date of the bounty campaign. Not just once, but a few times already. I know how it feels, as I've felt the same way too. However, I've learned a lot and finally getting used to it.

I experienced that a lot of times and it really happens because if you have an offline job like I had you will sometimes miss the deadline,  experienced that on Dfinance twice where I failed to reach the 15 limit posts but that's ok with me as this is a weekly allocated campaign I just make it a point to reach the following week..

[jrrsparkles]

I think we should report it on or before the time if we able to complete the required bounty tasks because the time take for reporting doesn't even take few seconds if you keep the required entry format in a word document and write all the necessary details while you are completing the tasks itself so once you complete everything just copy and past them on the bounty threads.

[ChrisPop]

We should always strive to bring value through our endeavours. Be it a bounty campaign,a job, a service provided or goods produced we should do our best to make the most of our time. I assure you that if you follow this pattern, you will be amazed by the changes YOU created in your life.

Now.. if you keep missing due dates you have a discipline problem. That can be solved by creating a sense of urgency in your life. Set yourself even stricter deadlines and challenge yourself. Just my 2 cents..

[Galley]

A lot of people inattentively study the rules for conducting a bounty company, and this then leads to many problems and claims to the project manager. Be attentive and then you will be able to avoid problems and negativity. Be selective in choosing projects to work with and don't be disappointed.

[milewilda]

Ah this really brings me back to the old bounty days which I do not miss at all!

It never happened to me,,, I did not participate in too many though, I made the mistake of joining projects I thought were cool and did it for MONTHS to realize later they would never pay out (or tokens worth zero). Since then, I just stuck to my single campaign on here. No worries about deliveries and payments, just chat and discuss as I normally do:)

It do really bring back some memories but not all would really have the hate that much when it comes to bounties.We might experience on not getting paid or getting some peanuts but
those are part of our experience and where it did really give us out some idea on how this market works.We cant deny that we do made some bucks out from those bounties in the past
unless if you do join up on past 2017 hype or in short doing bounties on 2018 onwards then i can say that this is really the time where majority will be experiencing on not to be paid
after how many months of doing such bounty task.Its common that bounty managers are the ones who would really be primarily took the blame if hunters didnt really get their pay
but to think that they are just also employee on said company or team.So it isnt really that much right for them to be scolded or to be blamed of.There are really people who
cant just easily move on after on what happened, i cant also blame them because doing some work without getting paid do really sucks.

[kawetsriyanto]

do you mean submitting additional forms to claim the reward?
Whatever the requirements to be in the qualification must be met. If we are failed to meet with it, we will lose our hope to get rewards. It happened to many bounty hunters who do not pay attention to the rules and its updates.
And here, if it happens, just move on and make it as a lesson not to do twice.

[bigcash2011]

It has happened to me quite a few times but i do not think that we can blame anyone else especially when the manager has announced the time for weekly form filling and usually it is 2-3 days which is ample time to fill the weeks work.
Mostly it happens when someone is promoting too many projects so he can easily forget about a couple every week. I have stopped promoting a lot of projects and stick with only a few at a time.

[Silberman]

Bounty campaigns are made so that they're hard to finish and if you break a single rule out of a dozen you will not get paid.

This is done so that out of a hundred accounts 50% will do some of the work but get paid nothing which makes them free workforce for the team.

If you can't do it 100% you better not do it at all because you'll end up like a slave who works for nothing.

Exactly this, some of those bounty managers know that they could be more flexible if they really wanted it but they prefer not to do so because that means they can get away with not paying a significant deal of their participants and they can do it without breaking their own rules and as such no one really has any room for complaining since the bounty hunters were the ones that did not read the rules or failed to fulfil all the necessary requirements in order to become eligible for the reward.

[adzino]

Bounty campaigns are made so that they're hard to finish and if you break a single rule out of a dozen you will not get paid.

This is done so that out of a hundred accounts 50% will do some of the work but get paid nothing which makes them free workforce for the team.

If you can't do it 100% you better not do it at all because you'll end up like a slave who works for nothing.

Follow the rules, don't break any and then get paid. If they are made so that it is hard to finish, then why do people still join them? Are they that stupid to understand that the rules are made so that people unintentionally breaks the rules and gets paid? I also heard people who one rule by mistake aren't warned or anything, they keep promoting the projects and doing their tasks. They only get to know they broke the rule when the bounty program ends. Does sound like they deliberately do it so people work for them for free.

[kindbtc]

I do not know why you are making the bounty community sensitive and guilty by reminding them of missing werkly report, come on, even now most of the bounty campaigns do not pay or pay very small amount so in my opinion missing one week or two for reporting will not make you rich or poor because you do not know what you will get in the end. The recent campaigns i have seen which looked good projects paid only few bucks worth of tokens after couple of months work so forget even if you miss reports it is not going to matter much.

[jrrsparkles]

I like point number 4 which is about YouTube content. I am one of the full time bounty hunters or can be said to be active in this forum. And of course I don't depend on just one point, I keep trying to do my best from one point to the second point to the next. at least to my limit. I'm constantly looking for ways to earn passive income in the crypto space other than as a project promoter. and it taught me to continue working without complaining under any circumstances.

But it seems you are wasting your time for nothing, no matter how hard you try the chances are less for you to make money and its really not possible to make constant income from the bounties.So try to learn other methods of earning apart from the bounty hunting.

[deadthings]

But it seems you are wasting your time for nothing, no matter how hard you try the chances are less for you to make money and its really not possible to make constant income from the bounties.So try to learn other methods of earning apart from the bounty hunting.

Agreed I don't think right now bounty is good source of income specially when the bounty is staked base since there would be a huge amount of bounty hunters will enroll and so the pool will be distributed to all the users. Still investing to your skill and offering it would be a good way of earning also investing and trading as well.

[Upgate]

Gone are the days when bounty project pays hugely. These days it doesn't worth the time and energy. After months of promoting a project, you'll end up not receiving a dime of their token. Even though you receive, it will be worthless token.
It's better not to partake in any bounty for now cos crypto market is so bearish as it stands now