Menapay's ICO was also discussed in our German local board because the project was presented on a famous altcoin blog and therefore the number of participants in the bounty was relatively high. After reading it, my intention was originally also to give them a negative tag but I decided to wait how the whole issue would continue after their release of the final spreadsheet. (they don't have released it yet, even after 8 weeks (!!!!) of "checking" it.) Token distribution is planned for May 16.
That's why I left no red tag yet although there is far more than enough shady shit to tag them already.
took another step and talked to the group admin and he admitted that they did change the rules after the bounty was finished, so while bounty hunters were waiting for their tokens, they expect them to go back and do more (NEW) work for them which is downloading their app and leaving a review for the app !
Correct, in addition to add more work by Menapay after everything was ended I see this as blackmailing the users to leave a
five-star-rating (the best one) for the app, otherwise they don't get their bounty tokens. That's similar to buy reputation for Menapay and has nothing to do with ratings left for a legitimate reason because the users are forced to do it and if they won't do it, they don't receive rewards for their work.
I'm almost sure that was planned, it would be no problem to include the rules in the bounty rules from the beginning and before the users join they see the rules. Otherwise, rules make no sense if I add some of them after the campaign.
Another thing is that the App didn't really work for many when they had to download it, there were so many complaints about it how buggy the App was. But that only as a side-note.
I have to say that i don't like all these bounty hunters as most of them spam to get some worthless coins/tokens, most of them do this shit with many accounts, but still some people must have put a lot of effort into this shit and they got scammed for their efforts.
If they really care for honest participants they would have added better rules before or hired a professional manager and not managing it "in-house" for the Bitcointalk part. It's clear to me that they were only interested to get as much as possible free (spam) advertising from everyone and remove as much as possible users later.
I went ahead and tagged their account because I believe they scammed bounty hunters by changing the rules after the hunters finished their tasks, in an attempt to not pay the hunters.
i would like to hear community review on this.
I will also tag them and remove my tag only if they distribute the tokens like stated in the original rules. Thanks for bringing up the issue here.