My discord and telegram fill up with mindless bots (or maybe real people) spamming links and 1000%+ ROI claims in order to try to get someone to click on their invite link; so that leads me to the question, do bounty programs really work?
For people who have done them for their project, do they bring in real value? I am not talking about discord/telegram members, anyone can buy those. I am referring to real active members that buy or contribute to the project.
I think the effect of bounty programs on a project has died down a lot, these days those campaigns are filled with participants using multiple accounts or bots. No project will for now depend on its bounty campaign for real value publicity.