I don't think the paid bumping is no where allowed in this forum,only the contest be like we need to post something in other platforms like social media or other forums or whatever but if someone is paying their participants to bump a thread then it will cause permaban.
That’s already been answered.
Yeah, it's not allowed unless the thread you want people to post in is in Games and Rounds (and the reward is paid in Bitcoin).
See this thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=254871.msg45661679#msg45661679I (and others) bump it every day.
OP, you should lock the thread now.