ICO Bench, what are you doing? - page 2.

Galantin

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Quote from: regerdiamondico on October 22, 2018, 06:03:45 AM

Suspicious activity on our favorite site icobench.com
It still began with the article https://hackernoon.com/beware-of-ico-bench-97addacfedc7 from Philip.
Where he unflatteringly speaks about the experts on this listing, also looking at several ICOs and their ratings, I noticed testimonials from ico-experts, who say so softly contradict themselves.
What do you think, is this their new kind of earnings?
Leave a bad review and then ask for money for editing reviews?
It is very interesting to hear your opinion.

He does not ask. He's just hanging it here. They contact him and pay money. Well, I think rating systems lie to us. The one who pays the most gets the most. This form of business. See how many of these rating agencies are now.

tsaroz

legendary

Activity: 3164

Merit: 1069

They are having an enough money from their paid reviews, they would not risk their gold laying goose for shady blackmailing reviews.
ICO Bench is one of the favorite ICO rating site as they provide most discrete and researchful reviews. Though they are not to be trusted blindly, I don't believe they'd be involved in blackmailing an ICO.

BogdanGFTP

full member

Activity: 504

Merit: 101

There is not any reason to believe in ICO ratings now. And there was not in any time. To fix that situation government should regularize this field like it is in stock market. Without government's participation things gonna be even worse.

Hektur

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Merit: 10

Quote from: regerdiamondico on October 22, 2018, 06:03:45 AM

Suspicious activity on our favorite site icobench.com
It still began with the article https://hackernoon.com/beware-of-ico-bench-97addacfedc7 from Philip.
Where he unflatteringly speaks about the experts on this listing, also looking at several ICOs and their ratings, I noticed testimonials from ico-experts, who say so softly contradict themselves.
What do you think, is this their new kind of earnings?
Leave a bad review and then ask for money for editing reviews?
It is very interesting to hear your opinion.

Cryptocurrencies, ICO is free and open market for everyone, not regulated, there are no rules.
Having positive reviews on this site is something like having an advisors in your team - you pay them and they will promote you.

Bytem3

full member

Activity: 602

Merit: 107

Check out ICO List by CoinCodex, there are combined ratings from various ICO rating sites.

ryanmargin

newbie

Activity: 54

Merit: 0

for a long time, i did not believe in some ico rating website because the ICO can pay for High rating! Some of them is not realiable, Be careful!

zedaq

member

Activity: 420

Merit: 10

First of all, I must say that I do not trust this resource, because this resource has very strange actions, but still I hope that they can make the project verification strategy more transparent and clever, because it happens that the advisors can be bought.

funchiestz

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Activity: 1134

Merit: 342

ICO should not rely too much on rating sites. They're always open to manipulation. But ICOBench is one of the better ones.

asriloni

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Quote from: TooDumbForBitcoin on October 31, 2018, 08:32:40 AM

Quote from: regerdiamondico on October 22, 2018, 06:03:45 AM

Suspicious activity on our favorite site icobench.com
It still began with the article https://hackernoon.com/beware-of-ico-bench-97addacfedc7 from Philip.
Where he unflatteringly speaks about the experts on this listing, also looking at several ICOs and their ratings, I noticed testimonials from ico-experts, who say so softly contradict themselves.
What do you think, is this their new kind of earnings?
Leave a bad review and then ask for money for editing reviews?
It is very interesting to hear your opinion.

This platform was a garbage from the beginning. I don't know how you can define it like "our favorite"

But not only icobench but whole of ico rating site except icodrops. That's the only reliable ico rating at this time. I don't even know why so many people are still trusting that garbage ico list site.
It looks like these guys must try to use their internet to get the reliable information about this one.

ND_INVEST

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Activity: 102

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Purchase real estate and cars at discounted prices

Quote from: MadGamer on October 31, 2018, 04:13:01 AM

I'm not sure why is everyone surprised honestly. This is a well-known fact, ico rating sites are not really to be trusted. Most of the reviews are pretty much fake or sponsored (bias) and that's why you find people falling into scams all the time.

I am pretty sure that expert ratings can be bought, just like positive youtube reviews, articles, comments and other things. We as an ICO had dozens of offers like that (to be fair, though, not a single one was about buying a score on reputable ICO calendars). What can be trusted, however, is the score without expert rates. The reason is that it's calculated automatically on many websites (icobench included) and just cannot be interfered with. At the same time, this score is based on many things that can be bought (for example, hype and subscribers in social networks, viewers of website and youtube etc.) and the program cannot really determine the potential of projects adequately, giving both overestimated and underestimated marks from time to time.

tamango

full member

Activity: 602

Merit: 100

I always take a look at ICO-bench and similar websites when I'm looking for a project but I never take too seriously their rating because I know that it's ofter manipulated to earn more money asking project to pay for a better rating.

TBboys

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Quote from: MadGamer on October 31, 2018, 04:13:01 AM

I'm not sure why is everyone surprised honestly. This is a well-known fact, ico rating sites are not really to be trusted. Most of the reviews are pretty much fake or sponsored (bias) and that's why you find people falling into scams all the time.

If there is anyone to blame though that would be us, the community because we gave them so much power. If people were using their brains instead of investing based on a meaningless score, they wouldn't charge that much money for listings etc. and they wouldn't get rich on our back.

Yes, all ico rating sites are set up for profit. Once there is interest, they will never give a fair rating. Especially now ICO has begun to move towards the edge of scam, more Ico rating sites have become tools for scammers.
So for any Ico rating site, it can only be used as one of our many investment references, but it is definitely not the key one.

alani123

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Those 'approved' experts especially, are actually all paid shills. They'll often give out 10/10 reviews for a few bucks or a promise of tokens. It's just weird.

alan2here

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WorkAsPro

Quote from: MadGamer on October 31, 2018, 04:13:01 AM

I'm not sure why is everyone surprised honestly. This is a well-known fact, ico rating sites are not really to be trusted. Most of the reviews are pretty much fake or sponsored (bias) and that's why you find people falling into scams all the time.

If there is anyone to blame though that would be us, the community because we gave them so much power. If people were using their brains instead of investing based on a meaningless score, they wouldn't charge that much money for listings etc. and they wouldn't get rich on our back.

All ICO rating sites at this time are for profit and few good projects are listed at these sites. I think we should not believe anything and must judge for ourselves, because if we have the knowledge, the risk will be less and less, and it can help us make a good profit if the project has a clear development.

EscrowService28

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“The World's 1st Waste to Green Energy DLT Project

No wonder this is one of the ico rating site that I wouldn't give time and trust. I think the ratings here are being manipulated by the professionals. Some project listed aren't worth a dime but some good projects with superior products rated very low. Maybe they doesn't pay them. No integrity should I say!

TooDumbForBitcoin

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Quote from: regerdiamondico on October 22, 2018, 06:03:45 AM

Suspicious activity on our favorite site icobench.com
It still began with the article https://hackernoon.com/beware-of-ico-bench-97addacfedc7 from Philip.
Where he unflatteringly speaks about the experts on this listing, also looking at several ICOs and their ratings, I noticed testimonials from ico-experts, who say so softly contradict themselves.
What do you think, is this their new kind of earnings?
Leave a bad review and then ask for money for editing reviews?
It is very interesting to hear your opinion.

This platform was a garbage from the beginning. I don't know how you can define it like "our favorite"

DominickA86

member

Activity: 252

Merit: 10

There are some theories, that it costs a lot of ETH to be listed on such a website and to get great marks. But I do not think that it is true. I usually look at the rating websites for great projects and the ICOBench is my most favourite one.

agg2702

member

Activity: 327

Merit: 12

I use icobench only to search for new ico, and I can make an ico list based on when ico will end, basic info like how much is the price of ico, whether the ico is still pre-sale or already Main sale, about the ico rating I don't believe 100% because of things it can be bought

pokxon

jr. member

Activity: 490

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I think most of the reviews are based solely on the feelings of the icobench team. Sometimes I do not believe them. Reviews can be paid for the purpose of attracting investors.

prehisto

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Quote from: regerdiamondico on October 22, 2018, 06:03:45 AM

Suspicious activity on our favorite site icobench.com

who said that Icobench is our favorite?
You can talk about yourself, I do not believe these kind of sites and you should know better to value their input of anykind.

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