What i see in this bounty thread is an adjustment in bounty rules that tries to overpass the new rules restrictions made for newbies, it is may be considered as a clever step but it may also considered as breacking of forum rules that was settled to limit spammy posts. If noobs are not able to develop of helpful post (need one merit point) then they are not worth to be awarded for nonsense posts. I don't know, but i can't judge the kind of this new rule:
We are giving to take part in the bounty for NEWBIE! We developed the rules specially for you:
Newbie
1. You must leave at least 20 posts about the Ternion project in the bitctointalk thread for the period and send the report (list of links to the posts)