Thank you very much for the clarification.
But I think we've got a serious issue here based on the above case... An entire bounty management platform is breaking the rules with all of the campaigns they manage. And they've had it as standard practice for a long time.

EVERY single campaign ran by bountyplatform.io has incentivization for those "#join" posts. Their system is made to track tasks automatically & requires registration with forms and yet they mislead users to believe that they have to make those #join posts on bitcointalk for their work to count on any bounty, even though the work tracked has nothing to do with bitcointalk.

Users just post their username which is against the rules as clarified above, resulting in a ton of spam and bloated threads. From my understanding, they provide their platform as a service and as a result, dozens or potentially hundreds of campaigns are currently in violation of the low effort rule.

Most campaigns listed on their site explicitly asks for #join posts, others get such responses even without asking likely both due to the memory of users as well as bot promotion. Some examples:



And the thing is, even if the thread's text doesn't explicitly ask for such post, the platform's rules supposedly require it and it's listed on the 'rules' for each campaign on their website. See: