Man, that's a sad story.
I have a question (forgive me, I have no experience in bounty management). Can't those guys first get the tokens into a trusted escrow before the bounty campaign begins, since they mint them from a thin air anyway?
That way there will be no stupid bending of rules by the scammers like they did.
Tagging and supporting the flag.
Exactly my thoughts, clearly this
bounty was pronounced as weekly payment bounty which means participants are to get paid every week before the next week campaign commence, if that was not implemented in the beginning then there is no need to blame a scammer for refusing to pay now that project is successful and doing well,
It's about time escrowing bounty funds is taken seriously, this goes to other bm's as well, opening scam accusation afterwards don't usually serve any good. The hunters will just accept it.
As i see this, the bounty was only for 3 weeks, so people didn't care much if they announced to pay the token after end of three weeks.
What i have seen mostly that if the token gains value, the project owner, don't want to give valuable token free of cost to the bounty hunter. They forget that it because of these bounty hunters the token gain popularity on social media and here on bitcointalk.