In my opinion, Bounty performance in terms of budget and payment to hunters has been on the decline for the past 10 months. Out of many campaigns that I have participated in (for the past 10 months), only about 5 campaigns made payment in the range of $10 to $40, while two campaigns paid in the range of $200. Most of the payments are less than $1. On the average, for every ten projects that I have participated in, five ends up being scam, or will have one issue or the other despite doing some research on the project before participating.
I observed that project owners are the most free entities, because it seems there is nothing to hold them. I have participated in over 15 campaigns that ends up with the project owners refusing to pay, or simply refusing to communicate and that is it. Many campaigns end up just after one week, and no payment. Bounty hunters, in my opinion are really being exploited. Sometimes I wonder if bounty hunting has become a charity of some sort because they end up not getting rewarded in many instances. There is hardly any payment being made. I have observed two scenarios: Listed tokens either pay peanuts (usually less than 5 USDT worth of tokens) or they will keep holding the tokens for several months, even though they are listed; the other scenario is to pay tokens that are yet to be listed.
My other observation includes: Some projects hold on to listing for many months waiting for the bull market; Some escrow projects end up paying worthless amount of tokens some not even up to $1. In my opinion, bounty hunting is dying and even participants are declining. Hunters only look out for few campaigns by some managers that may fetch some fair campaigns. I will suggest publishing scam campaigns in this forum so as to serve as a caution to project owners who now have freedom to do as hey want and nothing holds them. They waste people time and go freely. Secondly, why is it not possible to make all campaigns escrow? Unlisted tokens should pay in USDT - on a fair budget. Hunters must not wait for years to get their rewards because the token they promoted have not been listed. IMO, I think hunters task is more to promote the project than an investor so why won't they be rewarded timely?
This is the exact thing I'm seeing on the current altcoin bounty projects. There should be a sort of bounty management alliance that makes project owners required to put an escrowed stable coin that is calculated over the expected or planned bounty joiners. This is a good measure if ever the project flops or the owner run away which commonly happen nowadays. I think that publishing scam campaigns isn't that much helpful given that the project owners can easily make a project and make bounty hunters promote it again. We can see how easy to create an account here and make the things they are doing repeatedly. Though we can't control bounty hunters on joining potential flop campaigns knowing that some of them are doing it full time by having multiple accounts *I've been a bounty manager before that's why I know it. Also those managers who accepts potential flop projects since they make money there but I see it as a solution on current bounty campaign reward problems.
People love those campaign who pays surely that's why those campaign who have an escrowed amount of funds in bounty campaigns are filled so fast. People rushing participating in those kind of project because they see value in it, compared to those project that offers their native tokens that has the potential of having no value.
I don't see a good future on current altcoin bounty projects as a bounty hunter perspective. Too many project flops and some of them run away leaving bounty hunters no pay. It is too far from 2016-2017 bounty experience where majority of hunters are making quite reward from campaigns.