Sometimes its always better to listen to your heart, after learning how to do better research on projects i end up listening to few friends because they are the ones that introduce me to bounty hunting not knowing that i have surpass them, every bounties they told me to promote are bad but the ones i choosed myself are
1. Zeux
2. Collectrix
3. Ferrum network
They told me the projects are crap and i believe them,i was so stupid and now all these projects are successful with good trading volumes on exchanges, i have learn a lesson here and that is
No matter the rank of those who were once your teacher you can surpass them, to all newbies and non newbies out there once you learn the basics of crypto you can be unstoppable
I am not trying to defend you friend, but honestly, you would not blame them for making a wrong decision, because even as you have done your own research to bring out these projects is the same way that they probably did their own research too which I must tell you that you may never know how great a project will be until they have been established.
You will be making a very wrong mistake if you are judging these coins according to their own whitepaper because whitepaper would not show anything other than lies and other than what they want us to believe and not what they have in their mind concerning the genuine project itself. Many of them even hire people to write whitepaper and they are very much confidence that it would sell, so you should still check these listed projects of your very well to be sure you are right about it.
right, whitepapper is not a good indicator for assessing projects. as you said, whitepapper can be made as good as possible to attract investors. if we can research, I think a roadmap can be an alternative in researching a project. if the project goes according to the roadmap, at least the project is consistent