Something like users must earn 5 merits a months for their account to display a signature if being done by theymos or managers can make a user earn 1 merit per week to stay in a campaign.
I strongly disagree with this.Even though the merit system is doing well,I don't think every quality poster is awarded merits.My point being,a participant could be a great quality poster but due to whatever reasons his unmerited posts shouldn't stop him from participating in campaigns.
This also means anybody who has earned 1 merit in a week but is a spammer to the core will also be eligible to display the signature.I can show you 10 shit one liner posts which have been credited with 10+ merits.
I agree Joel_Jantsen; Earning merit is not guaranteed parameter of standard quality post and non earning of even one merit point by the poster does not mean that he is just a shitposter.
People are very clever; no one can stop them in barter trade; i.e. sending merit to the person and in exchange getting merit from the receiver. Also selling and buying is not so difficult as we have been getting news from different members about the issue.
Though it is also true that members are stuck at 10 100 250 500 etc etc also they got these merit points just because of their long back presence at this platform.