I look backward and see a lot of challenge facing bounty hunters and I can only see that things will get harder. The mental stress of looking for the right bounty to promote, waking up in the middle of the night for several hours to complete tasks for months just to realized you won't get $1 for all your time.
It is another scenario when you discover that the project you promoted is doing great at the exchange market but you realized the team are refusing to give the reward of your labour or change the rules regarding the campaign just to make it hard for you to get your reward.
I think most of this project team see hunters as being toothless because they know the worst you can do cannot affect their project. They name you different names just to make you look like a fool in the eyes of investors.
Until there is a way to deal honorably with these team, hunters will continue to suffer
Maybe you've been picking the wrong kind of campaigns, I hate to be the guy to say it, because I'm not gung ho on the merit system but it's the only way. Ranking up affords you the ability to participate in not only better campaigns, but also for better wages. There are a lot of scams out there, but the one thing I've learned here on this forum is that, patience is a virtue, if you just practice you're due diligence and research a project thoroughly before joining, you could save your self the time, energy, and stress from participating in shady projects or projects whose teams deal in shady practices.
I' too, have participated in a bad campaign and have been scammed as well. The best way I myself combat the situation is by prevention, whereas by practicing my Due Diligence for every campaign I consider participating in.
