Topic: Cheating in bounty programs - page 8. (Read 2280 times)
Most of the times is not really that they don´t want to pay but rather than that they are simply so poorly managed that the community feels they are being cheated.
That's possible. After all, some bounty managers would like to keep tight control over the bounties that they will (or will not) give out. As understandable as it may sound, since they are also entrusting their projects to people they don't know, changing the rules towards the end of a project and kicking people out of their hard earned bounties would also hurt their reputation ten-folds. I haven't experienced that yet and I believe I will not anytime soon.
It is very common many mangers seems to run out at the time of payment. also, one will observe that many bounties are manged by newbies and Jr. Members which makes the bounty less secure for bounty hunters as they can run anytime if coin is performing not well. I think moderators should also keep an eye on types of bounties which comes at bitcointalk.org.
Dev can search your IP, so you do bounty with multiple account can be blocked all of them
Probably yes, there is no control and we can only trust the honesty and reputation of the managers.
The only place where bounty hunters are pissed when they need to do KYC is in the US where not many have an actual passport. The rest of the world (at least those participating in bounties I assume) do have a passport. I don't get why KYC is such a big deal, it's just one of the rules. I do admit that projects need to mention this specifically up front, or come up with other ways to approve a bounty hunter. True, if work is done, payment must follow suit.
Cheating exist with both bounty campaigns and bounty hunters. There is serious regulations and measures that cub excesses of bounty hunters and this forum is always doing more to make sure everyone is not cheated
Do you think that some bounty programs cheat because they do not want to pay bounty hunters by bringing out things to do at they end of bounty campaign? Share your thought or experience.
Well it is likely to be true. In that they can intentionally change the rules later so that many hunters will do the wrong thing and at the end you won't get paid, but it is very subjective though! It has happened to many of us on several occasions. Anything can cause a bounty manager to change the rules of the bounty. Sometimes it can even be a directive from the project managers and hence they would have to change the rules. But one thing we must not forget is that it is always the duty of the bounty hunter to constantly check the bounty thread for any changes made to the campaign. Before we sign up to campaigns we agree that the terms and conditions can be changed and hence we must be checking to see if any changes have been made. So we must do well and be checking frequently for any modification to rules so that we don't blame the managers later for unpaid work
Do you think that some bounty programs cheat because they do not want to pay bounty hunters by bringing out things to do at they end of bounty campaign? Share your thought or experience.
Yes, sometime I think this is really the case. When the ICO is almost over, they just shut their ann thread and lock it. I was so unfortunate to have been a victim of this scheme, and even though I did not lost any money but the time I have spent is wasted.
Sometimes rules can change at any time to get us excluded from bounty, in any way will be done. I do not like managers like that, better follow the good managers and who are well known by the people in this forum.
Cheaters in bounty programs should be reported to prevent them from doing bad deeds to others. They are destroying the reputations of the legitimate ones. They should realize that the bad things they do will fire back to them. Worst, it could fire back to their loved ones.
Hopefully this would not happened to me, because I'm a new in this particular business, and this is my second time join a campaign, but as what mentor says, that this campaign that I joined is a trusted one, which the the campaign manager is have a long experience of being a campaign manager with good record services. Because as what my friend says that there are few campaigns which is a form by a group of scammers and cheaters.
This kind of situation rarely occurs. If such a situation is encountered, then it is revealed that more people will know their scam so that they can no longer encrypt the development of the market. They should receive such punishment.
This is one interesting project. As for me, he is the best and most promising for the rest of Bounty. https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/closed-shivom-the-future-is-your-genome-4000-eth-fixed-3183600
Yeah we encounter sometimes this kind of ICO or Camp manager that are cheating or not paying the respective stake or tokens into the participants. If they really dont pay or give you the worth of your work you can submit a scam accusations to the team and manager in this very forum so the admins and moderator see what will do in this kind of situations
Of course, most often all awards are paid. But it was already a habit at the end of the campaign to cut rewards many times and say that the economy of the project has changed. This applies to fairly well-known projects. Apparently a very toad smothers, especially when they collected more money than they wanted
Yea, i think we actually can't do anything about on the passed cheating , we should focus to figure the way out that we could stop cheating on bounty program so people could have a fair reward for their efforts.And it should applies to every single project than only the big ones.
Of course, most often all awards are paid. But it was already a habit at the end of the campaign to cut rewards many times and say that the economy of the project has changed. This applies to fairly well-known projects. Apparently a very toad smothers, especially when they collected more money than they wanted
Do you think that some bounty programs cheat because they do not want to pay bounty hunters by bringing out things to do at they end of bounty campaign? Share your thought or experience.
I'm not sure if the problem actually is the bounty program (run by the devs) rather than the bounty manager or the people who actually manage that specific bounty. I', new here but following several threads I often read complains, looks like people want to make things harder on purpose, like if the tokens were theirs...
as i read the post of this thread about kyc abd passport as requirements before giving rewards, Is it rightful to us bounty hunter? I mean if you require passport then some could be able to get their rewards because some of them are just college students, no work just in the house or bystanders and etc. that are joining bounty campaigns but had no passport. there should have another way in proving identity if it really requires before giving the rewards. for me it is not rightful if this is being prevailed by the bouny managers and they are also worst than a scam ever. Greedy people will mostly not successful.
Yes, it is possible, but I don't think it is a good idea. Reputation is everything for a company that raises money and if they hurt their bounty hunters, then all of the bounty hunters can turn against them and ruin their reputation.
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