Quote from: DireWolfM14 on Today at 09:36:28 PM

Quote from: yahoo62278 on Today at 07:00:20 PM

Reminds me of a bounty I ran awhile back where the team was supposed to pay after the TGE but severed all connection with me a month before the TGE. Might be the same team running the same scam. All the bounty hunters were never made whole.

Honestly, if a team approaches you with this sort of proposal and says they'll pay after the TGE, ALL managers should refuse the job. ALL bounty hunters should not participate either. Make the team escrow a large amount of money if they want to run a bounty, then take the chance.

One would assume this should become common practice for bounty managers and campaign managers. Especially those who've been around here and doing it for while, and have a reputation to uphold. I can see some newbie BM getting caught up in a scam like this because he hasn't developed a name for himself yet and is eager to get work, but these situations would be a lot less common if more scrutiny was employed by the more experienced ones.

It's a never-ending loop as far as bounties go. Managers with a brain can and likely decline a job offer if it looks/is a scam, but companies just find someone else that's willing. The someone else that is willing is normally some dude using a newbie account that they can easily abandon if a scam or other issue happens. Meanwhile, the bounty hunters join the bounty no matter who the manager is because the work takes seconds in most cases and they decide to gamble. When the gamble doesn't work out, then we see a thread like this 1.

Who is at fault? Every single person from the top to the bottom. What will fix it? No more newbie managers period!!! Escrowing something to hold teams accountable. I get it, not all teams are willing to escrow something, and I know managers are eager to start earning something. If a company won't escrow some funds, don't take the job!!! If the bounty is managed by a newbie, don't join. If nothing is escrowed, DON'T join!!! Being a manager should be an earned position IMO. Not just anyone should be able to start trying to manage a campaign. Build a reputation and then start trying to do some extra tasks.