Is this even normal?

[Phoenix_PROG]

Guys is any of these normal?

1. Admin close down bounty group after bounty ends

2. Admin failed to update spreadsheet and gives stakes to participants and later block access to the spreadsheet

This is what base protocol team did to their promoters, all those that participate in signature campaign aren't rewarded any stakes and they can't even look at spreadsheet, bounty group is closed too so anyone can't complain and yet the team said they will make distribution in the next 42 hours

[rat03gopoh]

Not normal, telegram groups related to bounties only deserve to be closed without problems if the bounty participants have received their rewards. If the group closes before all is in order, it can be said to be an attempt to avoid payment. The only thing you can hold on to is the bounty manager's last appointment in the group. If they deny it, then it's very likely they don't want to pay.

[Inkdull]

Guys is any of these normal?

1. Admin close down bounty group after bounty ends

2. Admin failed to update spreadsheet and gives stakes to participants and later block access to the spreadsheet

This is what base protocol team did to their promoters, all those that participate in signature campaign aren't rewarded any stakes and they can't even look at spreadsheet, bounty group is closed too so anyone can't complain and yet the team said they will make distribution in the next 42 hours

I have seen the spreadsheet before it was getting closed by the team and all of campaigns are not being updated and BTW the team who has been running the base protocol is very well known as a scammers in the past who have created the scam project called spective. This project has a very big chance to avoid to pay the hunters.
They just wanna get free promotion from you guys. None signature participants have received their reward. This probably as the next scam bounty.

I'm not trying to defend the team but that spective project was a artificial intelligence project and we all know that A.I projects don't always become successful, I heard that the team distribute funds back to their investors of spective project, they came back with base protocol and it became successful due to the project use case, but blocking bounty hunters off will ruin their reputation

[royalfestus]

Guys is any of these normal?

1. Admin close down bounty group after bounty ends

2. Admin failed to update spreadsheet and gives stakes to participants and later block access to the spreadsheet

This is what base protocol team did to their promoters, all those that participate in signature campaign aren't rewarded any stakes and they can't even look at spreadsheet, bounty group is closed too so anyone can't complain and yet the team said they will make distribution in the next 42 hours

I have seen the spreadsheet before it was getting closed by the team and all of campaigns are not being updated and BTW the team who has been running the base protocol is very well known as a scammers in the past who have created the scam project called spective. This project has a very big chance to avoid to pay the hunters.
They just wanna get free promotion from you guys. None signature participants have received their reward. This probably as the next scam bounty.

I wont be defending the project because i also participated in the campaign. The manager in charge of the campaign is not a regular bounty manager, so he doesn't know much about the activities involved. Sadly most cant access them via telegram but I did and noticed he barely come online, he post those messages few minutes I chatted with him, I left a message for him on the necessity of making the spreadsheet public before distribution. Lets hope for the best in the 48 hrs he promised.

[someone703]

I wont be defending the project because i also participated in the campaign. The manager in charge of the campaign is not a regular bounty manager, so he doesn't know much about the activities involved. Sadly most cant access them via telegram but I did and noticed he barely come online, he post those messages few minutes I chatted with him, I left a message for him on the necessity of making the spreadsheet public before distribution. Lets hope for the best in the 48 hrs he promised.

I have followed up on this project, but i did not participate in it because i found that they are not too interested in bounty, moreover i also found that the bounty group was also chat locked and BM changed the bounty for the hunter bonuses and it will probably be simpler if they still do what they say. But also be sympathetic to the project, as the project is currently handling a lot of work so the hunters should stay calm and not be too stressed.

[Apostlekin$$$]

Guys is any of these normal?

1. Admin close down bounty group after bounty ends

2. Admin failed to update spreadsheet and gives stakes to participants and later block access to the spreadsheet

This is what base protocol team did to their promoters, all those that participate in signature campaign aren't rewarded any stakes and they can't even look at spreadsheet, bounty group is closed too so anyone can't complain and yet the team said they will make distribution in the next 42 hours

I think these two points are very abnormal because they both concern work rations and payments to all participants who have promoted their project for a certain duration, so it doesn't make sense for them to close the bounty group and block access to the spreadsheet, this is a very real scam once.

Not updating spreadsheet is a different thing, not opening telegram group for bounty hunters to make complains is another, they aren't same thing mate, some bounty hunters may lose stakes due to this, the team in charge of rewarding stakes might do mistakes some times and if group is closed how will the hunters affected make complains?

[inanilujimi]

Looks suspicious, how can they make a distribution if the bet is not necessarily correct, there should be a grace period to publish the spreadsheet and participants can see if their bets are correct, if it's still messy is it fair to bounty participants? I think this is an indication of disrespect for the bounty hunter who have promoted their project.

[FrozenBit]

Not updating spreadsheet is a different thing, not opening telegram group for bounty hunters to make complains is another, they aren't same thing mate, some bounty hunters may lose stakes due to this, the team in charge of rewarding stakes might do mistakes some times and if group is closed how will the hunters affected make complains?

I think this is really a problem, if the project does not work with transparency in this then things are very difficult to deal with, because of complaints to solve problems that hunters may have, for example: reporting someone impersonating, stakes mistake... but since they have not given a spreadsheet, everyone should wait, according to OP's share 'team said they will make distribution in the next 42 hours'.

[KaratX]

Base protocol team should try as much as possible to come out clean this time around because many already thought they are scammers, their first project called spective failed and yet they comeback with base protocol only to start acting abnormally? They will get their reputations toasted fast if care isn't taken.

[cabron]

I have tired checking their website and it seem to me like they didnt explain everything there. There isn't anything there that prove they are serious with their project actually. Anyone should have figured the project is a possible scam. But lets wait the 24 hours they are saying to be sure, if they send out an announcement again to make delays, this will be a series of delays which is a sign of scam.

[tabas]

That is already a sign that they dont care about their bounty nor their bounty participants.
No updates, no notifications, no notes or clue. Dont expect anything from them if those simple task, they cant do.

[Greatdev]

I noticed that the team are too lazy to update spreadsheet themselves and many warned them to hire a bounty manager to get the job done for them but they refused, that's when I started having my suspicious about the project, it won't cost much to hire a pro bounty manager but instead they decide to manage the project themselves

[WalkerIVIV]

I noticed that the team are too lazy to update spreadsheet themselves and many warned them to hire a bounty manager to get the job done for them but they refused, that's when I started having my suspicious about the project, it won't cost much to hire a pro bounty manager but instead they decide to manage the project themselves

They have raised million dollars of money and that's only a few pennies for these greedy developers to hire the bounty manager to complete all of the task.
There were so many scam bounties started from the locking the spreadsheet and bounty group. When hunters were asking into the main group and these hunters will be banned then they will never get their payment from complete all of the tasks in the campaign.

[CashbackLover]

Those are bad signs that we've seen in so many scam projects before, blocking all participants in bounty group shows that they team are avoiding to answer some queries, blocking access to spreadsheet shows they aren't ready to fulfill their own promise to their promoters, this is wrong

[memed97]

Not updating spreadsheet is a different thing, not opening telegram group for bounty hunters to make complains is another, they aren't same thing mate, some bounty hunters may lose stakes due to this, the team in charge of rewarding stakes might do mistakes some times and if group is closed how will the hunters affected make complains?

It seems you don't understand what the OP is saying here, but it doesn't matter, because I will make it straight, in general every bounty campaign has a channel on telegram and a telegram group created by the manager, and if the group is locked or shut down, then directly the Participants cannot ask anything about the bounty, this I think is very unnatural because it does not respect the work of the bounty participants, and one more thing when the spreadsheet is locked before all participants' bets are updated, it is a very ridiculous mistake in my opinion.

[Bitbtc8]

This is not so normal, I think this project will end up not paying any bounty hunters, let's wait till 48hours and see what happens, it's very rare in this type of cases for such team to keep their promise, hiding spreadsheet and blocking bounty group them distribution isn't over is 👎👎👎👎, the foot print the team left with their first project is why I don't bother to promote base protocol, they claimed they refund their investors but not completely

[nomenclatur]

it is very abnormal base protocol is only a group of scammers who want to get free promotions from the bounty hunters as well as from the 2018 ICO project, which is currently dead, their projects are dead, many investors have left their spective project, they have also collected ico funds of around 1000 ethereum and they made a new ico base protocol that makes me not interested in joining this bounty.

[Anonylz]

Guys is any of these normal?

1. Admin close down bounty group after bounty ends

2. Admin failed to update spreadsheet and gives stakes to participants and later block access to the spreadsheet

This is what base protocol team did to their promoters, all those that participate in signature campaign aren't rewarded any stakes and they can't even look at spreadsheet, bounty group is closed too so anyone can't complain and yet the team said they will make distribution in the next 42 hours

It is somewhat normal to close bounty group if they feel it will generate lots of attention and rift among bounty participants but not very cool to also lock the spreadsheet denying participants access to review their stakes and reward to acknowledge everything is as expected,

I saw some members already pointed it out on the bounty thread so am hoping the admin will reconsider and open the spreadsheet for review and also open the bounty group for complaint of missing stakes which I know will occur.

[Bitstar_coin]

This is not so normal, I think this project will end up not paying any bounty hunters, let's wait till 48hours and see what happens, it's very rare in this type of cases for such team to keep their promise, hiding spreadsheet and blocking bounty group them distribution isn't over is 👎👎👎👎, the foot print the team left with their first project is why I don't bother to promote base protocol, they claimed they refund their investors but not completely

I have the feeling they are going to pay because they wouldn't want the accusation made about them being untrusted to be true, their account already have a red trust which is not a good thing,

What I think they want to do with this behaviour is to short pay participants, if you look at their post on Telegram bounty chat, the first post says bounty pool is "37030.31365 BASE, split across the different campaigns"  while the second and recent Post says "There were a total of 30703 BASE allocated for the bounty" what happens to the remaining 6,327 base  ,
My guess is they will manipulate the payment and try to avoid any confrontation which is why they put the bounty group on restriction.

[rahmatullah9305]

Those are bad signs that we've seen in so many scam projects before, blocking all participants in bounty group shows that they team are avoiding to answer some queries, blocking access to spreadsheet shows they aren't ready to fulfill their own promise to their promoters, this is wrong

Yes, it was a very fatal mistake for the project team, because their intentions were not good, because when the two things were blocked on purpose by them, it was very clear that they intended to deceive the bounty participants.