if anyone still says that bounties are useless then they are people who just want to make quick money without extra work. out there are still many bounties that pay, you must be brave enough to do more research before joining.
"brave enough"?
Either I don't understand something or you used the wrong words ...
I can't imagine joining any bounty campaign without checking the project (usually dev team, whitepaper, roadmap, but sometimes most important is working product). This usually takes a few minutes, because unfortunately most projects looks suspicious right away.
I think spending 2-3 hours thoroughly reviewing the project we want to promote is very little compared to the fact that we can waste a few weeks promoting a project with no perspective, or even worse if turns in to a scam.
Checking everything wont really be enough to consume out only few minutes and if you are really that serious on joining bounties then always choose the best projects out there.
You did not understand me. I wrote that I reject most of them after a few minutes, because that's all I need to find something that completely eliminates the project in my eyes. It takes at least a few hours for a closer research.
good but the actual project isnt relevant on what others been looking for or got interested.Bounties had become not too appealing for most people due to ICO market had been
tarnished out by lots of scam project which in result for people not on being paid up and with that reason then its not surprising for them to leave out.
Here I fully agree with you. The ICO market collapsed because of a very large amount of scams, but also because people didn't make research about projects at all. They deposited money without checking even the basic information about the project. What happened next was the result of these two things.
There are still investors on the ICO market who are looking for perspective projects. I am also looking for bounty campaigns of good ones.
Of course there is always the risk of missing something or a project simply going to fail. By researching the project, I'm just trying to reduce the risk of that my work and time will be wasted.