I'm not here to discourage you about bounty campaigns that are managed by the project team themselves, I'm here to tell you that you need to be extremely cautious, I've noticed that team managing campaigns themselves is not good
1. They have all the freedom of doing any how with your rewards
2. They can change certain rules that aren't reasonable, just because it's their project and they are handling the distribution they are free to do some bad things
3. Bounty Managers are very very important, you can get them nailed for not facing the team to force them to do distribution but you can't fight the team yourself
I'm sure I'm not the only one who sees things this way, or am I?
It depends because not all the times bounty managers would really give out that fight that you are expecting on in times where the bounty didnt tend to pay off their participant.
We know that BM's are just their employee too which do expect a salary from them and doesnt have the full control or capability when problems arise when it comes to payments.
You do got some point though but it wont work most of the time.If the project team wont tend to pay in the first place then theres no manager can fight off and force them out.
Unfortunately most of the managers are not ready to verify the legitimacy of the team which is the reason why people are wasting their time.Yes its true that managers can't force the team to pay if they are refusing but they should at least try to get it done.Maybe project team is busy on developing so they forget about the bounties so manager have to do some efforts to bring the rewards.