I want to share how any ICO could gain best rates on one of the most popular ICO listing site: Icobench.
The icobench rate is calculated based on two main parts:
a) benchy robot (bot)
b) experts evaluations
1) The main share of total rate is provided by a Benchy robot which automatically tracks ICO medium channels performance. ICO could easily deceive this robot by just posting every 4 hours (during 24 hours) any (no matter what quality) posts on its medium, facebook, twitter, telegram and bitcointalk channels.
2) ICO can buy for 1-3 ETH the opinions of high rang experts. These 'experts' will give 5-5-5 evaluation even not reading the WP.
Often, these 'experts', intentionally rate your project with poor rates so that you contact them in linked directly and offer a bribe.
So, when you learn how Icobench is working you will never trust its rates
Every service which provides rating system for ICOs could be manipulated in different ways. It's well known fact.
So before investing do your own research. Never trust anyone blindly.