Bad/lazy campaign managers and sig campaigns are a big part of the reason why the forum is a cesspool of spam right now...
I believe the merit system is in place partly to combat bad/lazy campaign managers who are not doing their job. It would be truly stupid to then give them the power that essentially makes the new merit system useless.
I would say based on the earliest of evidence that smerit distribution is probably still a little bit low. But given time we can hope that it will be adjusted. Finding the balance point of making merit useful and useless will probably take some time but adjusting that balancing point to much before data is available also seems stupid.
Indeed. There are some managers that are just calling themselves manager but the real thing is that they are not really a manager since they are not doing their job, what job? A manager should strictly observe the behavior of his applicants, checking post quality, checking their post if it was posted on the right time and not doing burst posting and so on, but what is happening is the opposite.
They are not doing their right job, they are just looking if his applicants hit the required post per week(not judging his applicants post quality) but just ignoring it so his job would be easy, also just to call himself a "Manager".