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?
i do not agree with your post, i have also worked on campaigns managed by the team members themselves and things went smoothly as they would with a bounty manager, all this rules you mention can also be altered by a bm because this are the rules apply to almost all bounty campaign manged by team or not,
to me, bm's are just like middlemen between the hunters and team, whereas the bm have less power over the campaign because they are subjected to all the directives of the project team. so basically it is the same thing.