You are very right mate, most people don't understand what hodl actually means, I wanna say that I kind of count myself lucky cus I've participated in several bounty campaigns and whenever reward is sent out to participants, I was always able to tell whether the project will last or fail along the way, and being able to tell this helps me make a decision of whether to sell my reward or hold it, and surprisenly, I've always been right, 99.9 percent of bounties I sold my reward immediately I got them are already failed, some turned scam along the way, and others were abandoned along the line, this is to say that personally, I always research a coin very well before making the decision of whether to hold for the long term or sell immediately I get some profit.