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What is the policy of the forum against people who use bots to perform the activities for the bounties in the forum?

I found a lot of them, what should I do? Are those account will be permabanned?

You need to report those accounts and most likely it will be permabanned if Mods found that they were bots used for spamming because of the signature campaigns.

All you can do is report it to the mods and those bots will be permaban in this forum but I think there will be new accounts that will be created to continue what they do over and over (I think).

I think this Enhanced newbie restrictions & requirements (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5030366.0) is the solution to stop the bounty bots from our forum,now they no longer can have signatures until they get one merit so OP you can now lock this thread.

They will be permabanned if they are found spamming the forum but that will be harder to do from now on because they'll need 1 merit in order to spam for bounties.
It is pretty easy for them to obtain 1 merit if they want to, they'll only need 1 constructive post anyway to get that merit requirement met. I believe we haven't seen the end of those people who use bots for the bounties.

Any official statement here? It would be very satisfying to ban and remove high rank abusers using this method.

Better ask mods about this, you could pm mods from bounty section or just post you inquiry on Welsh's  [Guide] Reporting effectively (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4519248.0) thread, he always answer when someone posts their inquiries about reporting.

I'm asking to mods, hoping to get one answer soon or later! :D

I think this is the job of Bounty Managers not the forum moderators,

Bounty managers are paid to detect bots and spammers and remove them from their campaigns or even give them a red tag.
Many BMs don't care about who join their campaigns they just calculate the stakes and send the report to the project team which is kind of cheating.

If you see bots report them in the reputation system bro,  every little helps make this forum a cleaner and better place to be in. The forum has definitely lost quality since bounties started to become popular, or maybe Theymos shoul just create a seperate forum for them.

Using bots is allowed, but the same rules apply as for humans: spam is not allowed.
That being said, I would say almost all "bounty reports" are spam, but somehow they're not moderated.

Exactly, bounty reports equal to spam. They can use Google form for report. Actually post a report help them to bump thread partially. It can't be control because it's easy for managers. But manager can force them delete report after update spreadsheet every week. So soo many post will reduce. There is no guidelines for managers from forum side. There should be something.  I am making a draft regarding that. Will post soon


Nothing even unofficial. PM to moderators with details they can trashed total thread. I have experience, ANN thread trashed many time if there is so many spam. So write directly to moderators.

See Signature Campaign Guidelines (read this before starting or joining a campaign) (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1684035.0)

in my opinion, these accounts should be permanently banned. because in my opinion, this forum is not just a bounty but also a place for discussion.

I often find lots of BOTs, especially in airdrop threads

I agree come kind of bots can be allowed (utility bots), but the real question people who uses bot to cheat on bounty and for this reason the post thousands of reports on the forum created by social media bot are also allowed?
Keep in mind those accounts also uses signatures and get money for their shitpost.

There are bounty campaigns that doesn't require hunters to post their social media links. Some hunters behave like bots by posting what is not required and they are breaking the rule in bounty section.

This is what they are breaking:

This is how I report their posts after asking their bounty manager if posting social media link is not really required:
Their posts will be gone the next day! But I'm not sure if they're perma-banned or temp-banned though.