95% newbies of this forum is active on bounty threads. They do not want to enter any other discussion thread. Not many newbies even know that there are such discussion threads in this forum. They have no interest in knowing anything about Bitcoin.
That's because 90% of the so called newbie aren't newbie per se instead they're alts of members already on the forum. It's a common practice of member (especially those participating in bounty) to have multiple accounts cheating the campaign just to gain few more cents. Bounty aren't bad which is why the forum has them listed although when you get obsessed with them because they give you few dollars is when it becomes a problem because it'll turn you into an unproductive members of the forum.
You can participate in the bounties and still become a productive member of the forum, that can be done by contributing quality to topic been discussed. The issue with bounty hunters is they don't engage the forum instead they're just interested in profiting from the forum as a result spamming with their bounty reports.