What is your opinion on the method of payment for bounty rewards?

[TimeTeller]

Better to pay something rather than scamming users or delaying payment for years, it can be in form of Bounty token or stable altcoins. The low class crypto exchanges keep asking KYC from Bounty hunters due to partnership with new project but the domino effect will be cause bad image for project development. Btw, to avoid shady possible cases escrow should be mandatory category for Bounty managers.

But at the end of the day, it is the choice of the bounty hunter to join the program.
This is the risk they are getting into this kind of promotion. As there is no security of payment.
The project itself has their own prerogatives what to give to their participants.
This is why you need to agree or accept their terms before signing up.
We can't dictate these project owners to get an escrow or use stable coin for payment.
Because it is their project and they have their own reasons why they want to pay their own token or coin.
If you are not amenable to their terms, don't look for bounty programs but go to btc-paying campaigns handled by reputable managers.

[Adbitco]

Then who would be the one would act like an escrow? For sure even those funds would be escrowed it doesnt really give out assurance that those amounts would be totally in safe hands

thats why getting rid of the risks wouldnt be that possible and thats why we couldnt really see such service or situations on where project owners do really tend to have that kind of set up.
It might sounds sad but it is indeed the reality on most projects, they are the ones who do handle out those funds and thats why trust issues could really arise from anytime.
If you do believe on such project then the thing you could do is to trust up that everything would go well.

Most bounty managers get a reputable escrow service providers, looking very closely there are some trusted users here that does that. now get this clearly i m standing a chance to say anything against how managers goes about their participants or projects owners treat their promoters but its of a choice that you must adhere to take your personal risk to promote any project, so if the project turns out to fail or succeed then it is a good chance for participant to merry over it. So payment might slightly varies due to much participants so it turns out to be trash at end of the campaign by this situation whom do you blame Bounty managers or projects owners?

[tygeade]

Better to pay something rather than scamming users or delaying payment for years, it can be in form of Bounty token or stable altcoins. The low class crypto exchanges keep asking KYC from Bounty hunters due to partnership with new project but the domino effect will be cause bad image for project development. Btw, to avoid shady possible cases escrow should be mandatory category for Bounty managers.

So that means you will accept a bounty token but the catch is the token have a tiny value or the token doesn't have a value at all? Because, you said you will accept any payment and worst is they delay the payment on top of that. I don't mind delayed payments as long as the bounty manager have guaranteed the payments already and the coin that he is going to pay is already listed on the exchange with a good amount of value.

Low class crypto exchange should not demand a KYC because they are a low class exchange anyway and their reputation is not yet proven. Bounty hunters don't mind doing a KYC if the exchange is well known.

[peter0425]

I always have sympathy for bounty hunters because they are mostly the victims of abused and scamming from the operators or businesses here.

mostly their time and effort goes to vain as they are not being paid for their works.

and also getting a payments in stable coins or Fiat would be more appropriated than what we are having now so yes i support this thread.

[southerngentuk]

There are always rules about bounty programs, and I see everything as being easy, and no one has to lose if BM does well. However, there have been notable cases where there has been an error from the project or BM, but there are really a lot of options with bounty and high value, so I don't see any problem if you keep doing your job well.

[Reatim]

Bounty is one of the medium used as a means of creating awareness about a project. As the name implies it is supposed to be a "paid to perform" task. If you're so new to bitcointalk forum I mean those task where you will be asked to perform some task to in order to get rewarded with some tokens. My main concern is the mode of payment. I've realised that upon all this task they are told to do which in one way or the other help boost the project in question, they end up being paid in cents. Some of them pay with tokens that are not listed which means you can't sell it anywhere. Seriously it's not funny. At least people should be treated fairly for their time, knowledge and energy. Bounty distributors should also know that it takes resources(mobile, data subscription, electricity) to perform those tasks. There should be a fairer reward distribution and not meagre tokens that is not even worth a dollar.
What do y'all think about this?

for my 6 years here in forum? i kept reading things like this mate about Bounty hunters problem in many projects they come to join and work yet? bounty project owners care nothing about yours mate because why do they care when they wanted to scam players from the very beginning  lol.

and you know why? because you mostly trying to join Bounty that promised big payments but without any assurance .

best to stop joining so you wont have any problem anymore.

[milewilda]

Bounty is one of the medium used as a means of creating awareness about a project. As the name implies it is supposed to be a "paid to perform" task. If you're so new to bitcointalk forum I mean those task where you will be asked to perform some task to in order to get rewarded with some tokens. My main concern is the mode of payment. I've realised that upon all this task they are told to do which in one way or the other help boost the project in question, they end up being paid in cents. Some of them pay with tokens that are not listed which means you can't sell it anywhere. Seriously it's not funny. At least people should be treated fairly for their time, knowledge and energy. Bounty distributors should also know that it takes resources(mobile, data subscription, electricity) to perform those tasks. There should be a fairer reward distribution and not meagre tokens that is not even worth a dollar.
What do y'all think about this?

for my 6 years here in forum? i kept reading things like this mate about Bounty hunters problem in many projects they come to join and work yet? bounty project owners care nothing about yours mate because why do they care when they wanted to scam players from the very beginning  lol.

and you know why? because you mostly trying to join Bounty that promised big payments but without any assurance .

best to stop joining so you wont have any problem anymore.

We've been trying to give out warnings since we do already have the experience on how bounty hunting do always end up which is neither not getting paid or have recieved no value tokens at all.
This had been always the case thats why its not really worth to join up bounty campaigns due to this scenario but surprisingly there are still people who do really love to engage
with bounty hunting and do still believe that they could make out big money out of it which is possible somehow but finding the best or potential project is just really like
finding a needle on a haystack.

[TheUltraElite]

I always have sympathy for bounty hunters because they are mostly the victims of abused and scamming from the operators or businesses here.

It is normal to fell sympathy for someone who is suffering but it is also wrong on the "victim's" end to continue joining more campaigns like that and keep repeating the same mistake. Most bounty hunters do this and they are the ones who blame for their misfortune.

mostly their time and effort goes to vain as they are not being paid for their works.

Altcoin projects that come up are anyway as risky as putting money in HYIP/MLM schemes. If there are people who are investing in those, then there will also be bounty hunters. Therefore it becomes easy for a scum project to become popular while at the same time they waste their time on it.

and also getting a payments in stable coins or Fiat would be more appropriated than what we are having now so yes i support this thread.

I dont know if that really solves the problem. If you are paying in fiat they could just use a freelancer site. If you are paying in stablecoins, or bitcoins, it wont matter unless the team is a legit one and has developed a proper project that delivers.

[Chato1977]

then talk to the company and not here in forum, because this community has no rights and capacity to follow your demand.

Instead since you are a  bounty hunter, you also knew that in that area  Scammers are all around and only 10-20% are truly paying bounty hunters.

so if you don't wanna be a victim of scammers then best not to join an bounty at all.

[Reatim]

Bounty is one of the medium used as a means of creating awareness about a project. As the name implies it is supposed to be a "paid to perform" task. If you're so new to bitcointalk forum I mean those task where you will be asked to perform some task to in order to get rewarded with some tokens. My main concern is the mode of payment. I've realised that upon all this task they are told to do which in one way or the other help boost the project in question, they end up being paid in cents. Some of them pay with tokens that are not listed which means you can't sell it anywhere. Seriously it's not funny. At least people should be treated fairly for their time, knowledge and energy. Bounty distributors should also know that it takes resources(mobile, data subscription, electricity) to perform those tasks. There should be a fairer reward distribution and not meagre tokens that is not even worth a dollar.
What do y'all think about this?

for my 6 years here in forum? i kept reading things like this mate about Bounty hunters problem in many projects they come to join and work yet? bounty project owners care nothing about yours mate because why do they care when they wanted to scam players from the very beginning  lol.

and you know why? because you mostly trying to join Bounty that promised big payments but without any assurance .

best to stop joining so you wont have any problem anymore.

We've been trying to give out warnings since we do already have the experience on how bounty hunting do always end up which is neither not getting paid or have recieved no value tokens at all.
This had been always the case thats why its not really worth to join up bounty campaigns due to this scenario but surprisingly there are still people who do really love to engage
with bounty hunting and do still believe that they could make out big money out of it which is possible somehow but finding the best or potential project is just really like
finding a needle on a haystack.

Yeah and indeed we have done our part since long time ago and what they are having now is none of our business already , they are now the one who is responsible to the outcome of what they are tackling here in crypto world.

Bounties are supposedly paying and earning but when they are not giving those threat then why would need to continue.

[Cryptomiles1]

There's nothing to panic about, it's called bounty hunting so anyone can take action to join or not and if much applicants applied it will turned out to be trash payment so is either you join the campaign or leave. You were not mandated to join for promotion of the project so there is every obligation, regulations governing the campaign and you have to read through carefully before enrollment.

Maybe you can say of low allocation then could be considered to ask the project owners to increase rewards.

[stomachgrowls]

There's nothing to panic about, it's called bounty hunting so anyone can take action to join or not and if much applicants applied it will turned out to be trash payment so is either you join the campaign or leave. You were not mandated to join for promotion of the project so there is every obligation, regulations governing the campaign and you have to read through carefully before enrollment.

Maybe you can say of low allocation then could be considered to ask the project owners to increase rewards.

Most of the time the allocation for the said bounty which would really be final and it would always be playing around 1-2% of overall total supply if we do talk about their budget specially on alt paying

campaign which it doesnt even give out some assurance that those coins would be ending up on having some value or none thats why you should really be minding off that particular risk.
Deal on project which you do seem to be worth but if not then you would really be just basically wasting up your effort and time.

Bitcoin/Top alt payment is something rare though because most projects do really tend to pay up on their own coins.

[Andam76]

There's nothing to panic about, it's called bounty hunting so anyone can take action to join or not and if much applicants applied it will turned out to be trash payment so is either you join the campaign or leave. You were not mandated to join for promotion of the project so there is every obligation, regulations governing the campaign and you have to read through carefully before enrollment.

Maybe you can say of low allocation then could be considered to ask the project owners to increase rewards.

I agree with what you said, before following a bounty you can see how the system works because every bounty is different in the payment system, observe and then you decide whether to follow it or not

[Cadaver20]

What do y'all think about this?

You have presented a very important point here. A bounty project can make a good payment to the hunters only when it is successful, which means they can raise a good amount of funds. Many bounty projects cannot be successful. As a result, they can't pay the hunters. That is the reality.  With that in mind, the Hunters have to work on the bounty. You can only work on escrow projects if you want.

[Dervish doff]

Bounty is one of the medium used as a means of creating awareness about a project. As the name implies it is supposed to be a "paid to perform" task. If you're so new to bitcointalk forum I mean those task where you will be asked to perform some task to in order to get rewarded with some tokens. My main concern is the mode of payment. I've realised that upon all this task they are told to do which in one way or the other help boost the project in question, they end up being paid in cents. Some of them pay with tokens that are not listed which means you can't sell it anywhere. Seriously it's not funny. At least people should be treated fairly for their time, knowledge and energy. Bounty distributors should also know that it takes resources(mobile, data subscription, electricity) to perform those tasks. There should be a fairer reward distribution and not meagre tokens that is not even worth a dollar.
What do y'all think about this?

and it feels bizzare that some bounties have complicated rules and many tasks to fulfill when it's clearly called "bounty" with no certainty value of the payments, some even demand original contents to work out.
I mean if it's just a bounty, just give easy works to promote the project, not like constructing the project itself.