You can argue whether we're volunteers or not. Staff are paid every month, but we're not technically employees.
On most forums I know, moderators aren't paid at all. And most forums have much less spam too. It feels like a fight that was lost the moment spammers got away with earning money from their spam.
It's a vicious circle: if the spam would be handled fast enough, they wouldn't earn from it, and spam wouldn't be worth it. At the moment there's too much spam to handle, they get away with it, and earn money.
It's pretty plane to see who are responsible but what constitutes enough proof to slap their company rep accounts with red trust or start deleting their main threads?
I would like to see very strict (and enforced) rules to post Altcoin ANN and bounty threads.
Why do you think they care about red trust?
A solution could be to disable signatures for anybody at -4 red trust DT2.
If admin remove bounties he does an economical suicide, a competitor will born and 90% of traffic will move and yes for sure the quality of the forum will increase a lot.
I don't think theymos cares about the revenue that much. I base this on the fact that he doesn't allow ICOs to advertise on the forum anymore.