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Re: Disable signatures/bounties til a user reaches full member status.
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Welsh
on 09/07/2018, 23:27:32 UTC
Why do you think this would make things worse?
In terms of users hunting for merit. The prospect to earn is still there, but it's just behind a rank restriction.  The users that are looking to earn through bounties, but aren't the required rank will definitely increase their posting habits in order to earn merit. As evidenced the last few months the users that are hunting for merit usually don't post high quality content.  

Paying for signatures is a little different. I wouldn't agree that the merit system could be removed if signatures would be put behind a paywall either. I think the merit system is a pretty good system, regardless if there's other limitations on signatures or not. Its not perfect by all means. However, those that haven't earned any merit since the introduction of the system are fairly easy to spot. I've also supported hilariousandco's suggestion of a pay for signature type system in the past. I think it would be mostly beneficial. Of course, the price of this would need to be carefully considered. Too low, and users won't care about spamming, and getting banned, because they'll likely earn their investment back before they get caught, and they'll just reinvest on another account. Too high, and your just pricing out legitimate users out of the usage of a signature. Several users like to link to their personal projects within their signature, and other interesting projects by others. We shouldn't be removing the ability of users to do this.  I'm not 100% for the idea of a paid signature, and don't see it as the best solution, but more of a compromise due to something needed done about the issues.