A more effective idea to remove bounties from spoiling the forum would be to remove the ability to merit in bounty threads or boards.
It will not resolved the problem try to figure out if it will happen then where will these people go? Spamming on META section just to get merit!
I would really love to see Theymos experiment on removing every bounty and signature campaigns and let's even see how things will pan out here with all these hypocrites denying they aren't posting here for reward, especially the high ranking members. At least, one month should be ok to test run this and see if posting activities won't be drastically reduced and traffic affected here.
Yeah that would be a better idea to remove the bounty campaign program and ability for the people here to earn and im pretty sure more or less 70% of the people here will left due to the fact that they are here only to do bounty hunting and not really fan of discussing bitcoin market price movement. Spamming will be less likely to happen because the high traffic of post on SMT sections are for complying bounty requirements for them to get paid on their shitposts!