Now "LoyceV" is taking signature campaigns into a another dimension. I really like the way you approch by introducing the concept of "earned merit" (not Airdrop Merits). I think you're giving perfect example for how should bounty manager behaved as a legendary (by it means) member.
The another thing I would like to suggest is
better to check wether the applicant has been involved in some kind of Merit abuse scenarios previously before your approval(sometimes members will get even 50 Merits for just a redundent post in ANN threads) We need to stop the spammers and well as the Merit abusers.
I hope this will become a really successfull campaign. (may be next time for me

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