I began to think this would be a waste of time with everything I learned because almost all the projects I had followed ended in scammers. Is this a waste of time for me? 
I think all the ICO project accept Newbie will be not potential and highly scam. All the ICO campaigns I joined, the minimum rank required was Jr. Member. So that you should find carefully about ICO project before joining and doing bounty
)))but for now there are also many gift camps that require ranking members to be able to follow that gift.
I think it is already too late for beginners to try to join the gift because of the Merit problem that is very difficult to come by, I think the alternative is to follow Airdrop which does not require a Bitcointalk account.