Ofcourse it is!
Nowadays, I notice most of bounties have strick rules, making bounties more organize and I like that Bounty Manager requesting Proof of Authentication to limit scammer .
It's been one of major mistakes of bounty hunter like me not to read rules and requirements of each bounties ending up not getting stakes so it's very important to read and understand each rules to ensure that we're doing the right thing and not wasting our time and effort.
With the pump of Bitcoin (up to $20,000). It brough alot of new people into the Cryptocurrency world. People were telling people "Hey come to this Bitcoin Talk website and just talk about Bitcoin and just stupid off topic stuff, and Once you reach a certain rank you can add banners and things and get paid in Bitcoin!!! The higher the rank the more Bitcoins you can earn"!!! So everyone flawked here to find that Theymos created a system to stop all of that nonsense!!!
Yes it is important as NO good BOUNTY MANAGER IS GOING TO HIRE SHIT/SPAM POSTERS! Make great quality, ontopic posts, and you should never have an issue ranking up or finding a bounty!!!
IT IS VERY IMPORTANT!!!