Everybody is complaining about bounty projects that failed to pay bounty hunters after bounty ends, these projects are not fake and they are trading with good volume on exchanges, they intentionally ignore hunters, there are few others that pays half of the bounty hunters and forget the rest, i feel your pain and anger but i think you should consider my thought, follow good bounty managers on this forum and you will always get paid, among good bounty managers i 100% trust arteezy and bubbalex, i don't know how they always do it but hunters always get paid, seem they take their job very serious, most projects that don't pay hunters are from new bounty managers or self managed by the project teams.
Do make sure you do your research though, sometimes not all projects from good bounty managers are legit.
Yes, but some projects from them is still do their promise. Bounty manager is just the person responsible for managing and calculating the stakes for the bounty, and all the rest such as the number of allocated tokens and the time of allocation is the decision of the project team. Prestigious BMs will find truly legit projects, so hunters will feel safe joining those bounty campaigns.