These ICO rating websites base their ratings on almost nothing. A lot of what they say just sounds cool or "sophisticated" when in reality it is just gobbledy goop. Seriously read some of these ICO Anns. You will read what they say over 10x and it still won't make sense. In these cases stay away. A good project would be so good at what they do that even an idiot should be able to understand what they are all about.
Bounty hunting presents a very good opportunity for newbies to acquire cryptocurrencies and while it is very difficult to identify the top bounty projects, newbies can use bounty hunting as a learning process to researching and gaining experience on ICOs and IEOs.
Influencers are mainly concerned about the money that they make and will only mislead the noobs in the cryptocurrency space.