I'm also sick of seeing spreadsheets there are many other people's job thieves, it's easy they just replace some letters from the username and take a real participant's link profile. Your way may be effective, but the bounty manager should also make a rule that each participant must make a post for proof of registration following the campaign.
There are so many thieves and this is job to bounty manager. But as participants which will get the disafvantages, we should help bounty manager to check the spreadsheet so we can inform the manager about this and get clear about the work. 
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That's right. That's actually a good thing to do.
But most of the time, the bounty manager determines which account is the real owner in order of priority, so I'm not worried about that.
But most of the time, the bounty manager determines which account is the real owner in order of priority, so I'm not worried about that.
But there are times when the thief of the account is the first one who register in the campaign. I experience it myself when I check the spreadsheet first especially in social media or telegram campaign that there is already someone who registered using my account. Due to hundreds or thousands of participants, they are taking a chance that the manager wouldn't be able to check that they are just thief of the account. Maybe it is a newbie because most of the time, they are not allowed yet to join a campaign so the most likely solution to this would be a proof of authentication post so that those cheaters wouldn't be able to get away with it.
That kind of trick should be limited by often to check the spreadsheet to see the update and progress of the bounty we participated, stealing other work will impact to disadvantages for true participant and or the developers.
that doesn't seem like the user's fault and there is nothing you can do about it unless you are willing to spend time 24/7 watching every altcoin/bounty campaigns out there and see if someone is abusing your account name.
the fault falls on the managers who should only interact with the accounts themselves not using outside of bitcointalk means to communicate like a spreadsheat on google to sign up instead of a comment on bitcointalk.
the fault falls on the managers who should only interact with the accounts themselves not using outside of bitcointalk means to communicate like a spreadsheat on google to sign up instead of a comment on bitcointalk.
Recently, I joined a signature campaign. After a few weeks, when I check the spreadsheet, there is someone who joined using my profile with a different ETH address. What I did was I reported it to the bounty manager so that they can take action about it. This is to remind every one to always check the spreadsheet whatever campaign you join to prevent those cheaters using other people's effort to gain some coins.
What might happen if I didn't check the spreadsheet?
First, the bounty manager might delete the two accounts thinking that you are cheating in the campaign with two different addresses and you lose all your efforts in that campaign and the possibility of being tagged too as a cheater and receive a negative trust.
Second, the one who use your profile will be the one who will receive the payment and you will not receive anything or the team might pay the two accounts so it will be a lose for them because they paid someone for free.
What can you do when you notice that someone use your profile?
First, report it to the bounty manager just like what I did to prevent those cheaters.
Second for support, you can put your ETH Address in the location field in your profile as a validation that you are the real owner of the account.
Hope this helps.
What might happen if I didn't check the spreadsheet?
First, the bounty manager might delete the two accounts thinking that you are cheating in the campaign with two different addresses and you lose all your efforts in that campaign and the possibility of being tagged too as a cheater and receive a negative trust.
Second, the one who use your profile will be the one who will receive the payment and you will not receive anything or the team might pay the two accounts so it will be a lose for them because they paid someone for free.
What can you do when you notice that someone use your profile?
First, report it to the bounty manager just like what I did to prevent those cheaters.
Second for support, you can put your ETH Address in the location field in your profile as a validation that you are the real owner of the account.
Hope this helps.
Everything you have said here is very correct. Few people in the forum are cheaters who want to reap from where they did not sow. They go to the extend of adding your profile link with their own address to profit from your own efforts. I think what i do in such cases i quickly notify the bounty manager.
I've seen profile theives are much more active in content creation and telegram. Anyone can make a telegram and automate joining a group from thousands of IDs and to save tine, they just provide random bitcointalk profile list which can easily be copy pasted from any other campaign.
Bounty managers should strictly ask to make a proof of authentication post from the said ID and never depend completely on Google forms.
Bounty managers should strictly ask to make a proof of authentication post from the said ID and never depend completely on Google forms.
Yes, the forum should at least have a place to put the ethereum address till than the bounty manager should rather look at the location to know which ethereum address to pay to. Though a simple proof of authentication post requirement would solve much of the problem.
Recently, I joined a signature campaign. After a few weeks, when I check the spreadsheet, there is someone who joined using my profile with a different ETH address. What I did was I reported it to the bounty manager so that they can take action about it. This is to remind every one to always check the spreadsheet to prevent those cheaters using other people's effort to gain some coins.
What might happen if I didn't check the spreadsheet?
First, the bounty manager might delete the two accounts thinking that you are cheating in the campaign with two different addresses and you lose all your efforts in that campaign and the possibility of being tagged too as a cheater and receive a negative trust.
Second, the one who use your profile will be the one who will receive the payment and you will not receive anything or the team might pay the two accounts so it will be a lose for them because they paid someone for free.
What can you do when you notice that someone use your profile?
First, report it to the bounty manager just like what I did to prevent those cheaters.
Second for support, you can put your ETH Address in the location field in your profile as a validation that you are the real owner of the account.
Hope this helps.
What might happen if I didn't check the spreadsheet?
First, the bounty manager might delete the two accounts thinking that you are cheating in the campaign with two different addresses and you lose all your efforts in that campaign and the possibility of being tagged too as a cheater and receive a negative trust.
Second, the one who use your profile will be the one who will receive the payment and you will not receive anything or the team might pay the two accounts so it will be a lose for them because they paid someone for free.
What can you do when you notice that someone use your profile?
First, report it to the bounty manager just like what I did to prevent those cheaters.
Second for support, you can put your ETH Address in the location field in your profile as a validation that you are the real owner of the account.
Hope this helps.
Wow, thieves are every where now. I am glad to know and thank you for sharing the experience. We should all be careful about this and check the spreadsheet more often.
That's right. That's actually a good thing to do.
But most of the time, the bounty manager determines which account is the real owner in order of priority, so I'm not worried about that.
But most of the time, the bounty manager determines which account is the real owner in order of priority, so I'm not worried about that.
I'm also sick of seeing spreadsheets there are many other people's job thieves, it's easy they just replace some letters from the username and take a real participant's link profile. Your way may be effective, but the bounty manager should also make a rule that each participant must make a post for proof of registration following the campaign.
Recently, I joined a signature campaign. After a few weeks, when I check the spreadsheet, there is someone who joined using my profile with a different ETH address. What I did was I reported it to the bounty manager so that they can take action about it. This is to remind every one to always check the spreadsheet whatever campaign you join to prevent those cheaters using other people's effort to gain some coins.
What might happen if I didn't check the spreadsheet?
First, the bounty manager might delete the two accounts thinking that you are cheating in the campaign with two different addresses and you lose all your efforts in that campaign and the possibility of being tagged too as a cheater and receive a negative trust.
Second, the one who use your profile will be the one who will receive the payment and you will not receive anything or the team might pay the two accounts so it will be a lose for them because they paid someone for free.
What can you do when you notice that someone use your profile?
First, report it to the bounty manager just like what I did to prevent those cheaters.
Second for support, you can put your ETH Address in the location field in your profile as a validation that you are the real owner of the account.
Hope this helps.
What might happen if I didn't check the spreadsheet?
First, the bounty manager might delete the two accounts thinking that you are cheating in the campaign with two different addresses and you lose all your efforts in that campaign and the possibility of being tagged too as a cheater and receive a negative trust.
Second, the one who use your profile will be the one who will receive the payment and you will not receive anything or the team might pay the two accounts so it will be a lose for them because they paid someone for free.
What can you do when you notice that someone use your profile?
First, report it to the bounty manager just like what I did to prevent those cheaters.
Second for support, you can put your ETH Address in the location field in your profile as a validation that you are the real owner of the account.
Hope this helps.
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