Success of bounty campaign depending with how success of pre sale or IEO selling, current bounty campaign almost success on pre sale by reaching target not only soft cap but also hard cap, that easy how to make distribution on time and most important when coins listing always above on pre sale price. But right now have drastically different situation because many of project not running well, they loss from pre sale or IEO selling target. Without any contributing from investor all project don't have enough money for paying bounty hunter and make some of current bounties campaign right now become scam, I think this contrast drastically different with bounty campaign right now than current bounty campaugn.
To be honest, today's bounty participants mostly rely on instant accounts where their followers are not really people who interested in crypto. This is based on my observations during running the campaign. Why still accept account participants? So, mostly BM considers accepting participants with accounts that use tools like #FollowBack on twitter, is to increase activity on the platform it self. The more frequent the activity generated, the more potential to be on the platform's search engine or when using hashtags, the post helps lead to people who are crypto investors.But for now, participants mostly focus for their profits than help project getting success on sale. I also remember one of my campaign participants tell me if he is don't care with sale results, this is really hurt for me or even for other BM if most of the participants also thinking doesn't care with the project during ICO/IEO, etc results.
In fact, the main target of the bounty is actually to find users to help the project to find people who are crypto traders or investors, but hard to find this kind of users. luckily there is a search and post suggestion feature on the platform that can help projects that are promoted to get a lead/prospects through retweets or creating original posts about the project.
back on topic, the selection of a good bounty that should be prioritized is
personal research of the project that run the campaign. This will help minimize your mistakes while working as a bounty participant. Indeed, BM is the person who is responsible for conducting research first, but BM is also a human, there must be a mistakes made that are not in line with predictions, including projects that end up to being scams.