I think this the new regulation regarding to bounty campaign and rank system will benefit both the bounty hunters and the bounty campaign itself since the number of participants will somewhat decrease but the quality will increase thus the forum will become more informative attracting more readers which makes their signatures more efficient and the stakes to be received by each participants will increase as well since there will be fewer spammers around.
I agree with whatever you are saying completely. The new merit system combined with the regulated bounty campaigns really does help bring down the spam in this forum to a whole new level and reward quality posters in a much better manner which is something that I am excited about at the moment. I have observed so many spammers joining bounty campaigns with the plethora of accounts with the intention of making a quick buck and posting low quality posts here and there which is why I welcome this new change wholeheartedly.