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April 13, 2018, 02:12:42 PM |
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I have extensive experience with bountyhive, and while I have received payments, I would still label the company as a scam for multiple reasons.
1- The lack of spreadsheets or ability to discern what you're being paid for. As an example, I received my iconic payment for the same timeframe as two friends of mine. We all should have been in different tiers of payment but received the same amount, I have a theory that this is when they realized that tweets and retweets can be archived and aren't counted by their system.
2- Their telegram is run by snarky, self-entitled mods who actually mock people who ask questions or don't understand their meaning. I mean, I understand that it might be frustrating to them to deal with 1000+ DMs a day, but if this is a problem, they should probably include a FAQ/News/Updates section on their website to eliminate some of the repeat questions. When I asked if they were planning to implement something like this, they said they didn't need it because they use telegram and medium. As a user to their website, I honestly feel important announcements should be somewhere on the website and not require users to sift through a telegram group of 25,000 people to find the answer to a question that was asked 4 months ago, but that's what their mods feel is the best course of action for you to take as a user while they get increasingly overwhelmed.
3- Because they rely on telegram/btt/medium to make announcements, there is information about the bounties that you will miss because it won't be updated on their website. As an example, I signed up for Iconic about 2 months after the bounty began. At the end of the iconic bounty, they informed us that 3 months ago they realized that iconic wanted to hold the tokens for 6 months before distribution and the community took a vote on whether or not to keep the project. They decided to keep the project, which was fantastic, but how was I to know any of this without scrolling through thousands of messages on their telegram to learn that the bounty distribution had been postponed for 6 months when I signed up for bountyhive almost 2 months after the vote even took place? If something will affect whether or not I choose a bounty, that information should be present directly on the bountyhive website they claim is a standalone.
4- Tracking. Their system is only run once at the very end of the bounty. If you're familiar with twitter rules and procedures, you'll understand that twitter will archive tweets past 3200 tweets(Supposedly 700 retweets but I haven't found any confirmation.) If you participate in many twitter bounties it's possible to regularly hit the 3200 mark over the course of a few months with different campaigns. Most bounties on btt never have to deal with this issue because they record and track your reports weekly(sometimes a bit longer if they're behind) but bountyhive dealt with this issue not by changing the dates that they run their tracking bot, but by making a limitation on the website that will not allow you to pick up more than 15 twitter bounties. This in itself wouldn't be a problem, except they provide no information on this issue anywhere on their website or corresponding documents, so you won't know about their tracking issues until you go to sign up for the 16th bounty and get rejected. Meaning that any new hunters that come to the website unaware of twitter archives or the way their tracking system works may potentially be working on campaigns that won't be tracked(if they have signed up for twitter bounties elsewhere) The 15 twitter campaign limitation is a huge issue because it's a 15 campaign limitation across ALL platforms and they don't notify anyone until they've hit 15 BOUNTYHIVE-specific campaigns. This is probably the biggest issue for me, because it is ABSOLUTELY scam behavior.
I am signed up for 43 different bounties across multiple platforms, the fact that they didn't tell me about this tracking issue is irritating because I now have at least 8 weeks worth of 25 different campaigns that won't be credited with bountyhive because of their lack of transparency with their system, tracking and hunter expectations. Apparently they didn't know it was an issue until around the time they distributed Iconic, but I feel like something so detrimental should be on the top of their list of issues to address, and they should take responsibility for their system failure by manually checking on a weekly basis until their system can work properly.
So let's see, in terms of bountyhive's promises, I'd say they've completely failed. They claim to be working for the bounty hunter but mods respond to you with clauses about their investors ("our investors have nothing to worry about"), they claim to have an escrow for payments(which is accurate but apparently not utilized ie: skychain/iconic), and they have a system that doesn't require you to track yourself(but sometimes doesn't track you either and you can't verify this because the information isn't available)
I'd rather track myself and get paid(or be able to stop participating in a campaign when I realize I'm not getting credit) over this system.
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