Probably he meant to say you walk down the street and you see a machine with a sign that says "Yes, this is an ATM", another one that says "Withdraw 100$ and we give you 50$" and while you go around it you see it's 1 cm thin so it has no way to actually store money to give to you...
Then what do you do?
Since we are asking rhetorical question, here is another one: would you do bounty campaign of just another DeFi shitcoin for a couple of months without knowing exactly how much you gonna get, when will those tokens be distributed, with solid chances of not getting tokens at all, and being previously screwed numerous times in the similar manner?
Leaving that alone, I guess the problem mentioned in the OP post is this:
Also, payments will not be made directly to the hunters ' wallet, but through the team's platform. gas fee fully fall on the hunters. And if you take into account the cost of the gas fee, many hunters will not get anything.
True, that sucks. Since they allegedly migrated from Ethereum to Binance Smart Chain, they could at least give them those tokens as I heard transactions are much cheaper on BSC than they are on the Ethereum.
It would be interesting to see a little math on it but...at this point it's a bit useless, there was never anything bounty hunters could do to force the team to do otherwise, you either chose a project in which the money for your work is escrowed or you gamble...
That bold part is what these altcoin bounty campaigns are, nothing else, so bounty hunters join as many bounty campaigns as possible, not choosing much, and hoping that few of out few dozens will be success. If bounty manager insists on escrow, projects will simply find another bounty manager who won't ask for that, and if by some miracle bounty hunters decide to go on "strike" and not join non-escrow campaigns, there are plenty of those that will see that as an opportunity to join and get even more tokens as majority of them are stake based, or even worse, make alt accounts and join with them. Only possible solution would be if bounty managers/campaigns have to be approved by the forum, but imho there are bigger chances for bounty campaigns to get banned altogether than that to happen.
That quote about insanity generally attributed to Einstein fits well in all this altcoin bounty campaign mess.