Right, the most important thing in joining bounty campaigns is to comply with all the requirements. Each bounty campaigns is allotted with different amounts so you also have to check that as well as the number of participants. There are campaigns who already have many participants so you have to calculate if you what you might receive is worth joining the campaign. The stakes also depends on your rank so sometimes it will be much more wiser to get you rank to Jr. Member or higher before joining especially if you know the worth of your posts (just saying   ).

There is a new requirement to get the rank moving and I am referring to "Merit". Many forum members are annoyed by this system because it makes the ranking up harder and maybe longer but this is the solution of the moderators to the growing number of spammers and low quality posters. It maybe annoying but we have to comply with it.