I have always felt that those bounty reports should have been done off-forum... Either on a dedicated site that was built for nothing but handling those bounty users, or maybe even in a google spreadsheet document directly.
They add page views, which affect forum ad revenue.
As far as I know, the forum doesn't need money and theymos doesn't care about ad revenue. I still don't get how "proof of authentication" isn't considered an insubstantial post, thousands of spambots post the same crap millions of times. What's the use of that?
At least it's mainly concentrated on a few boards, so it's quite easy to avoid.
I think there is a simple solution if the admins would like to put an end to this.
21. Old bumps and bounty reports should be deleted.
These three words added to the rules would do wonders for the Bounties section.