But if you do insist on tagging bounty spammers for bounty abuse, why not just tag them all? There's no way thouse bounty spammers all have thousands of real followers. All they do is spam Twitter and Facebook, and they exchange followers with other bounty spam accounts. So even if a bounty spammer uses only one account on Bitcointalk, they're still cheating with fake followers on social media!
Why tag everyone? There are still a few good people who follow the rules; nobody is a criminal until they are caught. If they spam Twitter and Facebook, that's none of our business; it's up to the social media companies to deal with them. Our only concern is keeping the forum clean and making sure no one is using multiple accounts to cheat, and whatever the projects turn out to be in the future is still none of our business.
Yes, the topic title was clickbait, but I'm trying to make a point here. If tagging them doesn't work, if the forum doesn't ban their low-quality posts, and if they don't bring anything good at all, can't we just ignore them completely? Don't mention them in Reputation (sorry, I'm guilty too), don't mention them in Scam Accusations, don't look for "alts" as long as they have nothing to lose, don't tag them, but just ignore them completely?
Ignoring them completely is the same as saying the DT system shouldn't exist; honestly, if tagging and reporting them hadn't been effective, the forum would be in a much worse state than it is now; no system works perfectly, but as far as I know, tagging them has been helpful.
I often see them littering the forum environment with one-line replies in some of their favorite sections (altcoins), if I'm right it's because they have to meet the post quota of all their accounts.
Not all one-liner replies are spam, and not all walls of text are of high quality; there are some questions that deserve a one-liner response, and you just drop and go; writing a wall of text isn't always necessary.
Instead of red tagging all bounty hunters, just remove the bounty section and all DTs wouldn't wasting their time to tag each accounts.
Theymos would never agree to that, because I believe the bounty board is the most active part of the forum (I could be wrong) and contributes more to forum activities.