Of course bounty hunters are near useless as far as ICO promotion goes -- that's not a secret.
On the other day I had a discussion with one of the team, and it seems the market has a confusion that when a project success all credits go not bounty hunters. It's totally wrong. Bounty is only a small part of a project to be successful among x number of factors it needs. Yes, there are spammers and ignorant participants (I will call them disrespectful users to their work, bad names in the industry) but there are good guys too. They do work well. If bounty was entirely useless, then projects would not spend money. Let me share that I have experienced from several campaigns I managed so far:
After launching the campaign and before ending (usually presale or public sale) it, the teams will say very positive things about the campaign that it's going very well, they are happy, supper happy etc. But after the sale:
a) They will just pay the hunters, despite they had a successful presale or not. In fact, they push hard to get the spreadsheet so that they can pay the hunters and focus on their work. These are the people who are committed to their project and respect other's work.
b) They will start making excuses, start delaying or start blaming the quality of the jobs done by the hunters even after a successful sale. Their excuses are like this:
- I do not want to pay the low effort works, let us reduce the allocation. The allocation is too much. Did you see how the price spiked?
- If I pay the hunters, then they will dump my tokens.
- Your campaign was not good. It did not help my project. We(project team) have done all the hard work. Etc. etc.
Noticed the same guy was saying good things about the campaign before the sale but after, ironically, all started to go wrong.
Token Distribution Starts: Two weeks after the bounty ends.
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I gave my all to get the hunters paid but nothing worked unfortunately, and now it's clear that they scammed 400 BNB from the investors too since I do not see they will have any real development.
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