Topic: Bounty stats by rank+possible security issue - page 2. (Read 463 times)

those campaigns/projects (that pay in token) might be actually the one misusing the data
they could sell your email address to marketer (spammer) and/or use it for other reasons
it's recommended to use disposable address for bounties and airdrops
I don't even understand why they need personal info and email address in the first place

In my experience as cheaters hunter I can assume for facebook and twitter on some campaings a percentuage around 80-90% of jr members + newbies, yes most of them are abusers, but noone cares, manager, CEO of ICO, the bigger is the number more the spam it will be and more the manager will earn. (even if multiaccounts)
In the past I've found users with over 100+ accounts so in my opinion this 80% can be a real thing.
You can also ask to someone to Scrap those data it will be a easy thing, but I have no skill to do so.

Most of those emails are specifically made for bounty purposes. So even if they get hacked, they won't find anything useful in it. But still the campaign manager shitcoin manager should do his damn job well. I wouldn't be surprised if its ran by a kid/s.

I don't think there's any bitcoin paying campaign that accepts shitposters. Bitcoin paying campaigns are mostly dry, only a few of them are there.

Jr. Members shouldn't be allowed to participate in bounties. They need to deserve that privilege than just freely abusing it. But then again, theymos doesn't listen to me, he doesn't like me either.   

Wow, I didn't even realize how many participants there were for all those bounties.  Betcha about 40% of those are alt accounts across the different bounties, and probably within single ones as well.

No surprise that Jr. Members make up the bulk of them.  Decent, bitcoin-paying campaigns are generally shunning noobs at this point, which I think is an excellent thing.  The only way they can make money with their spamming is through these shady token bounties, and all it takes is 2 weeks before a brand new account ranks up to Jr. Member, so they keep creating them in bulk.  It makes me want to vomit, but we all know it's happening.

As far as the security goes, that's on the participants.  If they're silly enough to provide their real e-mail account or any other identifying information, they're just asking to get their identity stolen or have their inbox spammed incessantly.  There's not much this forum is going to do to prevent that.

This is a well known issue and someone was actively previously contacing managers and posting information publicly in order to get them to comply and remove users' emails from their spreadsheet.

It is interesting to see the number of higher ranked members in those campaigns, it would be interesting to see how their post quality is actually reflected by being in those ampaigns if they're joining bounty campaigns instead of more permenant campaigns with a fixed pay (as I undersatnd it, the people in campaigns enter some sort of pool and get a "share" of the entire pool based on the number of entries they have in it).

Hi!
The idea.
Since there is a lot talk about bounty campaigns and who are participating in them but I haven't seen any data collected about this, I decide to research them a bit more, my initial goal was to collect data from bounty campaign sheets and give some quantitative analysis.
What I actually did
I did collect data  from 11 Signature bounty campaigns and about users who participate in them, collected the regular stuff shown in these sheets. I tried to collect data from different managers who accept Jr.Members because it is becoming clear that most Juniors are here only to spam and use this forum for a quick buck. I filtered those users who were accepted in these campaigns and  looked and the rank distribution, you can see this data below.





This shows that there is a lot of Jr.Members participating in these bounties, on average there are 40% Jr.Members in signature campaigns.

Unfortunately Twitter campaigns and Facebook campaigns do not register the rank of the member so i could not research them.

This all was nothing special or surprising, but one thing was alarming.

While i was going trough these campaigns I noticed one alarming thing, some of the managers are doing a poor job of protecting data. With data I mean emails of users, I found that 2 of 11 bounty campaigns did not protect sheets and emails of users can be easily copied.  This is alarming because emails in wrong hands could lead to hacked accounts, could this be the reason why there are so many hacked accounts constantly?

I do think that these managers should be warned and in case they dont listen - marked as untrusted members, i would not want to trust my data with someone who dont lock their spreadsheet.