Before participating in a bounty campaign I personally do a very detailed analysis: I am well informed about the project and if I have time I read the whitepaper too, I see that if it has a valuable team and advisors, and if the bounty campaign is managed by a reliable bounty manager. It can also happen that you are not paid, but it rarely happens to me

Bounty campaign is never a wast of time at all, i look at it as a passive income, i love Bounty campaign.

It is a great source of income though I can't say passive since you have to do it hands on and accomplish tasks. But as far as income is concerned it is even much better compared to most part time jobs available out there, but you also have to identify the good ones in order to not let your time and efforts be wasted.

Why is it passive income, don't you do a lot of things to get it. I think it is really a waste of time, but if you can get the benefits of their own satisfaction, then it is worth it.

I can truely said that participating in bounty campaign can give us a great income then it is very good if you don't have any work here through this way you can earn money, it has a little bit hard but i believe this saying that if you really want to have these things you need to do hardwork even doing sacrifice for it.

I don't like "passive income" in your subject name  You need to be rather active if you want to help the project and earn more stakes. Helping the project must come first, otherwise what point of having useless tokens. Some people manage up to hundred bounties doing the bare minimum and spamming this forum. Personally, I would never join a signature campaign asking to write 20-30 post per week. I cannot do that much without writing some 1 liner bullshit.

But airdrops, with rare exceptions, are waste of time, most of the time you're getting peanuts. Ontology was quite different, people got 1000 tokens just for subscribing to the news. Telegram airdrops are a good example of time waste. 5% of bounty pool (usually 1-2%) is allocated to telegram. But those groups quickly reach 20-50k members, making the individual share worth nothing.

I think you have to spend time researching and collecting information about it. After the decision to participate.
Of course, I can not guarantee that the bounty campaign is not a scam, but at least, we can try to avoid it.
Bonus campaign is not wasting your time. But that does not mean it can give us passive income

Depends on bounty you involved yourself in. Generally, it's great income that can be passive, or full-time main income if you choose many projects at one time. Some of my friends easily make good $ working 3-5 hours 5/6 days a week. Many people.claim.to.make 100k off bounties, I dont't know if it's true, but some $ bounty can bring to anyone, who contributes

Bounty campaigns are sometimes waste of time and sometimes great passive income.

I think it is something that should definitely be tried. a process that does not want too much time and effort but has a high probability of earning.

Yes, its really unfortunate if you are a bounty hunter and then try to work on a campaign for months and then one day you wake up and the manager says the campaign is over because the project wasn't able to reach the soft cap target. I would also be pissed but we can't do anything about it.

I'm not a bounty whore so I can't answer from experience. Although I have read around the some bounty hunters looks if the campaign manager is legit. While most members read the whitepaper and scrutinized the team behind the project. Trust is a big word in the forum though. As for trusting any bounty? I don't know about that. All we can do is that the project will not turn out to be a scam in the end.