I do kind of wish there was some sort of requirement to post in the bounty section. I'm not normally one for too many restrictions, and I know theymos has shown his disdain for newbie jail in the past, which in the most part I would agree. However, the bounty section is absolutely crazy. I'd like to see something like earn x amount of merit in y period, and you can post there.

Otherwise, you get a ton of accounts registering, and only ever posting in bounties. Therefore, not really contributing much at all. However, this would be at a cost, since the forum would undoubtedly lose users, but I'm not sure that would be entirely a bad thing. The thing about having a one time entry requirement is that users can just meet the one merit requirement or whatever, and then never contribute to any discussion ever again, where as if you have a constant target you'd get a little more genuine discussion from them. I'd like to see the bounty section as a privilege rather than something that's abused. Since, most of these users don't adhere to the rules, and it's quite a lot of cleaning up to do.

I've been trying to clean up the announcement sections, and while I've actually made a visual dent recently, the bounties section is a whole different ball game.