I have seen situations where bounty hunters are side-tracked after providing their services towards the success of ICO projects. It is either they are paid less as against initial agreement, or they are not paid at all. I would have mentioned the names of some of those projects, which succeeded, are already listed and yet did not pay bounty hunters. Some things really need to change. We are to be treated with respect, most especially the honest bounty hunters.
That is true!
A lot of bounty participants are just spammers and scammers (abusing bounties with multiaccounts), those should not receive any reward.
But well-skilled bounty hunters are better than paid advertising! And after all bans on ICO advertising, bounty hunters will be the only marketing strategy that ICO will have!