You're essentially complaining that you have to make high-quality posts in order to participate in signature campaigns.
that might be the case, but it overlooks one thing. are high quality posts actually generally rewarded by the merit system? that's the intention, but i'm curious whether that will be the outcome. nothing forces anyone to give sMerit for high quality posts, but i think there are strong social incentives to use merit as a social reward for group-reinforcing behavior. i.e. receiving merit is probably more a matter of a) posting what someone wants to hear, or b) social status, than it is about high quality posting.
If you want to talk about unfair, think about the Hero Members that have created high-quality posts in the past yet are now bummed out of Legendary status because they're 500 merits away.
indeed! i was potentially only ~115 activity from ranking up to legendary when the merit system was implemented, so it's definitely a setback. oh well, at least i'm not
losing rank. i do feel bad for those people who had like 476 activity and now only have 250 merit, mainly because i don't know how effective merit will be at rewarding high quality posters in general.