Quote from: Theb on September 04, 2019, 07:24:10 PM

Patience is really the key for the participants when it comes to delayed payments but we are talking about almost a year of promise that a payment will happen "soon" and I don't think it's good enough to see that after 11 months of waiting you will only receive an update that they are "working on it" without really going into detail whatsoever. I'll give a thumbs up that aTriz have updated the current situation but if that "soon" didn't happen at all then it is really all for nothing.

That is not true about BQT. Bounty payment was due 40 days after the ICO finished according to the bounty. This was a promise made by Zapo but left for others to sort out. ICO finished earlier this year.

Atriz /Zapo is no longer involved in the current process. Someone else has already been tasked with completing the audit which hadn't been done but is part of a bounty managers task. Other projects have voiced the difficulties of such task when it is not completed by the bounty manager.

I think this project is unfairly targeted for a payment that is overdue at the most for 3 or so months while other projects in the same situation but overdue for more than a year have not been complained about in the same way.

Such inconsistencies tend to happen regularly. I think people tend to get overzealous in calling others "scammers". Especially if they do not have active representation on bitcointalk.

I believe that Theymos has a symilar opinion when he said:

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Forgiveness and de-escalation are key to getting Trust working smoothly:
- Forgiveness: Often people make fairly small mistakes, but then they seemingly get red-trusted for life. This isn't really fair, and it discourages participation due to paranoia: if you think that you have a 1% chance of running afoul of some unwritten rule and getting red-trusted for life, you might just avoid the marketplace altogether. Red trust should mostly be based on an evaluation of what the person is likely to do in the future moreso than a punishment/mark-of-shame.
- De-escalation: If some people end up locked in a feud where they're only really giving negative trust to each other in retaliation for negative trust, then one of them should propose burying the hatchet and removing the negative trust. Otherwise it never gets resolved, and everyone is worse-off for it.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5139179.msg50888622#msg50888622

Both myself and Talkstar have been in contact with BQT. With a previous allegation against them they provided all the information and did exactly what they said they would - leaving the previous allegation without foundation. They ran a successful ICO raising millions. Spent millions on building their project and paid their signature campaign participants. I see no reason why they would "scam" their bounty participants for a few dollars worth of tokens which they set aside for the bounty at the start of the project.