It's unfortunate however that many projects have reneged on their promises to reward users for their contributions. Once the project becomes relatively successful, they begin to give excuses, delay distribution, block hunters who request for payment or even fail to pay anyone.
I think start not to easily follow a project that only makes promises, because if you stay in that position, I'm sure you will think like that forever, in my opinion, start thinking about researching a project that you want to follow then looking for basic information and if it can be confirmed then start contributing to a project,