So you're saying that people who have made a *name* for themselves essentially aren't allowed to accept such a project (where allowed equals to 'no risk of rating')? How is this 'a choice'? That would be going towards censorship/privacy issues rather than helping remedy the situation.
We are still talking about ICOs, right? People asking for money on the internet? TBH their privacy doesn't concern me. They can go to a loan shark, finance their project to completion, and then make themselves rich anonymously by selling their completed product/service.
Two points:
A) Not all projects with anonymous teams are ICOs.
B) Not all projects are asking for millions.
Victims and BM role aren't same.
Absolute nonsense. In most of the cases, the BM is a direct victim and often suffers greater financial damage in comparison to any participant (you could even argue that the manager suffers damage that is greater than the sum of the participants' damage, which is zero if you argue that tokens are worthless until the market gives them a value).
Why needmoney is tagged? Did they fail to count posts and update spreadsheet?
Running a fraudulent bounty =/= running a bounty for a project that ends up being a scam. To this date, needmoney has not acted upon the allegations that were brought up which makes the situation completely incomparable.
The over-promising ROI part I can agree with.
How so? If there is disclaimer, BM's shouldn't be held accountable
They aren't, especially not legally. That's what a disclaimer is for.
However, what about projects in which the team is anonymous?
Anonymously running ICO to collect millions of dollars? Don't you think it is something which should be avoided in first place?
Read my response to suchmoon in this very same post.
BM's can't hide behind disclaimers.
They can and they will. If they can not, this will be yet
another incentive to never post a bounty from your own account but rather use shills[1]. Stop making up fictional rules that will only re-enforce current problems.
[1] It would be pretty trivial to create a non-discoverable shill that solely posts ANN threads / switch whenever something goes wrong. Strong incentive, minor cost, huge obstacle in tracking down the actual BM.
Note: Nevermind; not really applicable.