Brilliant, unhelpful post.   While you're right--and I've supported banning sig campaigns in the past--Theymos has already ruled out doing this.  I don't much care if I never was in one myself, and I agree that it's the only surefire way to kill all this shitposting.  And yeah I'm in one myself.  I learned 3 years ago that to refuse to get paid for something I'd be doing anyway is lunacy. 

And nixing campaigns would solve the merit-selling issue as well--but that problem is a distant second to shitposting anyway, though they're closely related.  I still think, and I wrote it before, that eventually the merit system will significantly reduce shitposting. 

And merit sources will hopefully not hand them out to scumbags who'll end up selling the sMerit.  This is going to take time, and it's still early on in the life of the merit system.