[billyoneal]

There are places that will pay bounties on even very flimsy reports to avoid the press / perception that they aren't responding to researchers. But that's only going to remain as long as a very small number of people are doing this.

It's easy for reputational damage to exceed $1'000, but if 1000 people do this...

[cratermoon]

One might even call it reputational blackmail. "Give me $1000 for this invalid/useless bug report or I'll go to the most click-baity incompetent tech press outlets with how your product is the worst thing since ILUVYOU."