This post by BlastMechanism is likely relevant:
So eliminate all the bounty threads. And we non-techie persons and "toxic" bounty hunters will just move on to another platform.
If those bounty hunters would stay in their bounty-hunting threads that could be tolerable. The problem is - they're infecting the rest of the forum. And if they could go and earn those bounties on "another platform" they would have done so already.
I understand. What put me so mad was to see the way some more higher ranked members were celebrating like if they were avoiding some kind of deadly disease that new members could spread. And always keep saying what new members should or shouldn´t do to earn merits when almost all the merits that were earned on this forum were gained with the old rules (with no real "merit", probably, in most of the situations). And some other more specific things that I will share with Jay in DM.