Responsible bounty hunters and also a member of bitcointalk forum,

[jademaxsuy]

Is it wrong to become a bounty hunter?

I had been here some time already and witness different kinds of bounty hunting and learm to it. There are many kinds of bounty hunting that I know but only few forms of bounting I was able to join. I know that bounty hunting is also for bitter and for worst, for richer and for poorer of the rewards will be. I never get the chance to earn high in bounty hunting opposite to what I was expecting in earning a good rewards. It never did happen to me so far especially in getting good and valuable tokens.

But this post is not all about the bitter experience in bounty hunting for currently I was accepted to take part of a good project that pays in btc instead this is all about the types of bounty hunter and being responsible bounty hunter. There questions also that I am wanting others to reflect on below. So, here it is.

Does Bounty hunting bad for the forum?
Many users here are actually get annoyed with the bounty hunters. Yes, there are users like that because they believe that bounty hunters especially in the signature campaign only added the pile of post by spamming, plagiarizing and other forma of disgrace posts specifically to major board discussions.

To directly answer the question above, bounty hunting is never a problem to this forum. I have seen the opposite of what others are thinking of especially the signature campaign. For others wanting to remove signature campaign because of irresponsible bounty hunters taking part in the discussions with them and making off topic replies, plagiarize and etc. that will disgrace the content of the thread and the discussions itself. Actually they are wrong because it is not about the signature campaign but the irresponsible attitude towards bounty hunting. So, what I was thinking about it and made this post?

Some in their ideology about bounty hunters are wrong
Others are thinking that because of bounty hunters the forum was a completely messed. Hmmm, Yes they are half right. LOL. Actually bounty hunters were helpful in nature and there are others tha are not. As a bounty hunter what and at the same time a member of the forum should know how to be both a bounty hunter and a member of the forum.

There are two types of bounty hunters.

1. Responsble bounty hunters
2. Irresponsible bounty hunters usually bounty hunters that are lazy and are not doing their job well to promote cryptocurrency.

My own assessment of bounty hunters level of  classification in according to their skills and knowledge.

Level 1. Compliance to bounty reports bounty hunters
      -  A type of bounty hunter that are doing task on social media bounty reports and usually only after getting of rewards or tokens from participating ICO, IEO, STO, & DEFI projects. More newbie are like this and I know what they do is actually not wrong if they just know how to join a project and what project to avoid especially the scam projects. A member of the forum should not promote scam projects outside in different platform like in those socia media. These type of user forgot that they too are part and member of the forum which they should act accordingly and should join project responsibly.

Level II. Gambling enthusiasts bounty hunters
       - These bounty hunters are usually present in the gambling section and are active in starting a thread to discuss with. Of course what do you expect to a bounty hunter that do likes to gamble. Some of them were becoming sports analyst making predictions about upcoming sports events. I have seen a member that always open a thread about upcoming boxing matches.

Level III. Multi-Lingual bounty hunters
      - A type of bounty hunter that knows English and also knows other language as well. These type of bounty hunters can do manage projects that are translated to the language which they are task and post it in specific sections. The translation of the project from bounty thread to white papers are crucial to the success of the project. This is why they too get paid way bigger than those bounty hunters that are only submitting compliance of  social media reports. These type of bounty hunters will be a great help by lifting language barriers problem in the forum through translation.


Level IV. Technical Bounty Hunters
      - There are only few of them here that are working technically. They are able to join bug bounty to which a newly platform to be launched will be tested thoroughly by them making sure that there were no problems with the platform or the products to be launched.

Level V. Bounty manager hunters
      - A bounty hunter that hunting managing and promoting new project in the forum. Usually their time is dedicated in monitoring during the promotion of the projects and at the same time they are responsible in accepting applicants joining in the projects. I have known few good and reputable bounty hunter managers here in the forum and usually they promote campaign that pays btc.

Level VI. bounty hunters that are gifted with wisdom
      - A type of bounty hunter that has broad knowledge about cryptocurrency or are highly intellectual about cryptocurrency. They usually can answer anything about cryptocurrency and they are active in joining projects that pays btc like one of the long run campaign such as chipmixer. Most of highly intellectual bounty hunter are fast in earning merits and ranking up in the forum (if they started from newbie and now becomes legendary). They really are genius and capable of sharing post that will contribute help to the forum and the members itself. In short they are bounty hunters that are gifted with wisdom. These type of bounty hunters too could do task as what other bounty hunters that are being classified.

So, being a bounty hunter is never a problem if you know how to become a good member also in the forum. I had made this post in the purpose that others should see their worth not only as a bounty hunter but also to becoming a responsible member of the forum. We made mistakes but that shouldn't mean that we will not learn. Remember that MISTAKES CHARGE TO EXPERIENCE. No one is perfect but the irresponsible bounty hunter should always be corrected.

What do you think?


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[Insanerman]

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What do you think?

For me, honestly, bounty hunters are those whom are often more active in their social media websites than the forum. Yes, some might be active in the forum while being a bounty participant, yet in most cases, especially those that were higher ranks, tends to either not wear any signature at all or participate less in signature bounties, as some were good projects yet have uncertain outcome while some are really promising (such as Digital Gold Bounty ^[1]). Hence, bounty hunters that wears and still participates in signature bounties are somehow less active in the forum yet being so active in social media campaigns, like 40% forum, 60% social media marketing.

[1] - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5164058.0

[lovesmayfamilis]

What do manager hunters mean? Have you assigned positions to all forum participants?
There are people here who are not at all interested in making money on the forum, but they are interested in communication. But according to your description, they also belong to the bounty.

I think bounty is evil. Why? Because it takes a very long time and as a result, people earn very little. This is at its best. At worst, they don't earn anything. If you look at the endless citation of reports, sometimes you just feel sorry for the people who are doing this.
Instead of useful reading and study, people sit at computers all day, earning themselves cataracts. And at the same time, they do not receive anything useful for themselves. Almost all bounty companies turn out to be scammers

[Raytheon]

Level III. Multi-Lingual bounty hunters
      - A type of bounty hunter that knows English and also knows other language as well. These type of bounty hunters can do manage projects that are translated to the language which they are task and post it in specific sections. The translation of the project from bounty thread to white papers are crucial to the success of the project. This is why they too get paid way bigger than those bounty hunters that are only submitting compliance of  social media reports. These type of bounty hunters will be a great help by lifting language barriers problem in the forum through translation.

It's not really true here. I see a lot of self-claimed translators here on this forum with a long list of projects but their translations are mostly done using Google Translate. I'm not a multi-lingual person but using Google Translate to cheat on bounties is not strange, this spotted case might be one in many of them: How A Translator Using GOOGLE TRANSLATE Was Able To Cheat & Got Away With It.

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I think bounty is evil. Why? Because it takes a very long time and as a result, people earn very little. This is at its best. At worst, they don't earn anything. If you look at the endless citation of reports, sometimes you just feel sorry for the people who are doing this.
Instead of useful reading and study, people sit at computers all day, earning themselves cataracts. And at the same time, they do not receive anything useful for themselves. Almost all bounty companies turn out to be scammers

It's true that bounties are evil.

Many cheating occurred during the bounty running. (alt.account)
Incompetent team that doesn't give good marks to hunters.
Many projects are plagiarized / fake teams
In the end it became scams.

There is no doubt that the bounty is just a waste of useless time all day working on it while the results are not commensurate with what we are promoting wholeheartedly so still bounties now no one gives good rewards or even no value at all.

[jademaxsuy]

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This is why I write the title of the topic as responsible bounty hunters because bounty hunting is not really a problem here but it is the attitude of the bounty hunters that disgrace them here in the forum.

If you say that bounty is an evil because of the things that you have mention yes you may be right but responsible bounty hunter may never join scam project or those projects that are obviously scam. Now, is there an evil to it? Like for example the one managing the project was a reputable bounty manager like @Hhampuz would you call it an evil project? We know how these bounty managers work and they are good in scrutinizing project before they will accept it.

I say not all bounty project are evil. It is the bounty hunter that made it worst jumping into projects that are scam.

And if really bounty hunting is an evil like joining signature campaign then remove first your signature before telling it so that we will be convince about your claim.

Again for me there is no bad in bounty hunting but it is the irresponsible bounty hunters.

It's not really true here. I see a lot of self-claimed translator here on this forum with a long list of projects but their translations are mostly done using Google Translate. I'm not a multi-lingual person but using Google Translate to cheat on bounties is not strange, this spotted case might be one in many of them: How A Translator Using GOOGLE TRANSLATE Was Able To Cheat & Got Away With It.

then that bounty hunter is an irresponsible bounty hunter. Again you may get confuse here. Joining in bounty doea not mean that it is evil or something it is just by being responsible that we know those projects are most of it scam why join?
But I see there are project that has been introduce by reputable bounty manager and that should be the project to be joined and highly recommended.

There is no evil in bounty hunting but there are evil projects. If you are a responsble bounty hunters you will not join scam projects. That's it please make your brains work!

[Raytheon]

then that bounty hunter is an irresponsible bounty hunter. Again you may get confuse here. Joining in bounty doea not mean that it is evil or something it is just by being responsible that we know those projects are most of it scam why join?
But I see there are project that has been introduce by reputable bounty manager and that should be the project to be joined and highly recommended.

There is no evil in bounty hunting but there are evil projects. If you are a responsble bounty hunters you will not join scam projects. That's it please make your brains work!

I'm not against doing bounties. I am myself wearing a signature of a project that I consider good. But if you classify cheaters as irresponsible bounty hunters then it's you but no one who is being confused.

2. Irresponsible bounty hunters usually bounty hunters that are lazy and are not doing their job well to promote cryptocurrency.

Put aside those multi-Googling translators, what about multi-account hunters who join the exact same bounty with a serie of accounts like in here. You call them "lazy and are not doing their job well to promote cryptocurrency"?

[SquirrelJulietGarden]

Discussions, contributions and creative ideas are vitamins for the forum. If one poster can do some of those, that poster is a good member.

Do bounty hunters contribute good discussions, contributions or creative ideas? Most of them don't and they are not vitamins of the forum. Everyone joins here to read and post but posts are not required to keep your account exists. Your account won't be frozen, locked, banned if you don't make posts.

If you make shitposts, you are shitposters. I'd like to look at posts of good posters, not shit posters and the signatures they are wearing don't decide their quality.

[cryptoaddictchie]

I think bounty is evil. Why? Because it takes a very long time and as a result, people earn very little. This is at its best. At worst, they don't earn anything. If you look at the endless citation of reports, sometimes you just feel sorry for the people who are doing this.

Ive experienced this in the past. Not so sure to call it evil in my experience cause Ive generated some funds from it. Yeah the process takes long thats why Ive pick shorter term and not a social typw with reporting doing mostly blog or anything that is not that gonna eat my time. I think if got lucky like joining an altcoin that have good market then it supplement with the rewards too.

Bounty campaign in altcoins and btc paid signature has no difference except with the assurance of payment weekly. Also strict management of the managers. Anyway still consider myself as hunter sometime.

[pooya87]

a "responsible" person is the one who performs a little research into what they are advertising and what kind of business they are helping to grow. when the term "bounty hunter" is used for those who help advertise ICO scams then you can not call any of them "responsible" because they are helping the scammers rob a larger number of people by "spreading the word". not to mention that they are just as guilty in the scam as the scammers even though they only get paid a tiny amount of the total scammed amount.

A type of bounty hunter that has broad knowledge about cryptocurrency or are highly intellectual about cryptocurrency. They usually can answer anything about cryptocurrency and they are active in joining projects that pays btc like one of the long run campaign such as chipmixer.

that is just signature campaigns not bounty hunting. the later is only the ICO or similar tokens (aka bounties).