HI I also had an issue with Bounty Hive. Details I described here:
https://steemit.com/ico/@annahare/bountyhive-versus-steemit-open-letter-to-the-community https://steemit.com/ico/@annahare/bounty-hive-vs-steemit-part-2 And short excerpts from both articles:
" Dear BountyHive community. I guess all of you know well this quote:
NOTE: YOUR ENTRY STATUS IS 100% FINAL. Entries are double-checked by different members of our staff and we will NOT change the status of your entry after we've already verified it.
This rule made by the BountyHive reminds me a beautiful Latin maxim Lex retro non agit, which translated to English sounds: law isn't retroactive. As you probably guess or know, this is a basic rule of Roman law which, by the way, is a base of modern national and international law. The problem arises when this rule is treated selectively." (...)
(...) "After I was banned I had a small chat with the Telegram administrator of the English bountyhive group. He sent me an example of 3 articles from Steemit that received stakes. And to be honest I was deeply disappointed. Two Russian articles were a piece of crap. First one contained plenty mistakes, the second one was a video transcription, made by a program. Seriously? What about the quality? Guys, I would be ashamed to reward it. The third article written this time in Turkish had bought upvotes. From 300 followers guys had 111 upvotes including the one made from a popular service for buying upvotes. This is was a proof of my thesis that NOBODY READS THE ARTICLES!" (...)