What do the people who operate these bounties think of the newbie invasion?
If they didn't create a self-moderated topic then they can't delete it ofc but at least they should report the spammy posts in their topic.
And at this point, as stated, enforcing self-moderated topics for bounties isn't a bad idea. Let them assume their responsibility.
An idea I had in this vein was that upon registration you'd have to pick one of two paths:
- "I want to discuss things"
= Banned from all money-making/spam-hotbed sections until Jr Member
- "I want to make money"
= Banned from the more serious sections until Jr Member
= You have to pass a quiz before posting which tries to inform you about basic forum rules, how not to get banned, maybe some basic English knowledge, etc. (Quizzes are pointless to stop dedicated spammers, since an answer key will quickly be compiled, but it may help in cases where clueless people are ending up here.)
Ok, it may work, we need to generate many questions, same question could be asked in different manners, it needs to be shown one by one so it may confuse them a little bit.