I'm really starting to think that more then 50% of bounty hunters are cheaters. A lot is probably due to the world they may live in and them trying to better themselves, but that doesn't take away from the fact that they are selling their moral values for a freaking dollar.
Another reason for such a high percentage of cheaters might be because those who are trying to do it the right way see bounty campaign being filled mostly with newbies which equals to alts. So after some time they probably start feeling stupid not to enroll couple of alts when bounty rules basically invites you to cheat which eventually led to such a high percentage of cheaters.
The issue is, most managers are scared to death if they take away allowing newbies to participate, then the bounty they are running will have 5 participants.
All good managers I know don't even accept newbies in campaigns because they can't wear signatures, and twitter social media campaigns can be much harder to track.
I think that yahoo62278 referred to altcoin bounty campaigns and he is right, if bounty managers introduce that rule it would soon become obvious how few legit members do those bounty campaigns which would cause them loosing their job. I just went through first few pages of bounty section and checked couple of bounty campaigns that are hosted by well known managers and all of them allow newbie accounts to join. Are there any manager that has that rule, where no newbies are allowed in altcoin campaign?
I like the idea of one manager making campaign that pays if someone catches member who is cheating, and I think all managers should do something similar.
Even symbolic payment would make forum much cleaner place.
I agree, it's not a bad initiative at all, but afaik it only counts for btc signature campaigns and not altcoin bounty campaign which is where majority of cheating happens.