As one of the few active bounty hunters in the server, I do agree with most of weskers point. However the issue I ran in to when I/we started playing Bounty Hunters was the ZOI and ofc the paper work, people keep saying "unlimited zoi" yet that's far from the truth. You have to be registered on 95% of the bounty boards, you have to write down which factions can be engaged in which systems, some BBs have a scale up like Kusari ones where you only get a few zones at first. Then you run in to a problem where you're a bounty hunter wandering i don't know lets say sigmas, you see a hostile target... you have to go through each and all bounty board lists to see IF you can even engage the hostile... If their faction is not bountied or you're not registered, you simply can't engage doing what your faction is meant to do HUNT. I find that very obnoxious, thankfully some BBs have made Sirius Wide bounties a thing so it's easier to play the ID, up until then it was very bad not to mention the payments... thanks to BAF for sacrificing so much credits and making bounty hunting a thing again btw.
I've talked about this with back then admin Aerelm who has sadly left us, he clarified it was super easy to just put a simple plugin for bounty hunters to get bounty money same as with NPCs. However with that ID changes need happen, meaning adding an ID line that you can actually attack hostile targets without having to go through the trouble of paper work and registering not to mention claiming which is another headache, miss one ID screenshot with time and your claim is invalid ... especially in big battles where you have over 15 opponents taking all their ID screenshots is very much pain and plainly not pleasant .
Having Bounty Boards is fine, but you should not be forced to do forum work if you do not desire. The ones that want extra money should put in extra work on the forums, the ones that don't shouldn't they should be paid a little sum of cash in game and not get SANCTIONED for not claiming .