Some people would say that bounty participants are given free tokens and so they feel they should not be treated well and perhaps not be paid.
Even if you do not invest your money directly into a project, you have indirectly invested money.
- The time you spend in promoting a project is much more precious than money, because time spent or wasted cannot be regained, while money can still be regained even if wasted.
- You have spent your energy and effort. As a matter of fact, there are people that sleep so late at night, just because they are trying to promote a project. Except you feel you are not honest enough.
- The electricity used, internet facilities used and other amenities used are paid for. For instance, in my country, there is no free internet facility and i spend so much on browsing data.
All of these if looked into sometimes and the cost implication made, might be much more than the money anyone might have invested directly into a project.
Therefore, you are not to beg for tokens, you are also like any other investor, who has invested his/her money.
If your services are not needed as bounty hunters, there would not have been any token allocated for that.
The right word is claim and not beg.
Why to beg, bounty reward is bounty hunter's right and he should fight for it.You rightly said time spent cannot be taken back, bounty hunters like me are spending lot of time out their busy schedule to promote ICOs through bounty campaign, if someone thinks hunters are not doing anything then he is mistaken, sparing time by bounty hunters with all their own resources used definitely should be seen an investment.