Newbie comes onto the forum and starts snooping around because he heard about bounties. He wants to make some cash and he wants some cash right now. He starts trying to sign up and realizes he needs to be a jr member to participate. Here comes your first influx of SPAM.
most of them
(spammers), if not all, will get nuked or banned before they get to Member rank
Jr Member maybe easily attainable because the lack of merit requirement,
but any manager wouldn't accept him in the signature campaign with near low quality posts
(even if he manages not to get banned)A day later he realizes why he came here in the first place. He needs damn money. So the light bulb goes off. Well if a hero member gets 8 stake and a jr member gets 1 there is only one thing left to do if I'm to make it as a bounty hunter. Multiple accounts!
make sense... but bounty position is usually available in limited number
he would have to compete with other candidates to get selected
We probably have hundreds of people spamming the hell out of this board with multiple accounts and the merit system does nothing to stop the spam and it may actually cause more of it.
I think merit does help reduce spams and account farmers to certain degrees
and it's no doubt there are users with multiple accounts,
but they who ranked up their accounts surely have good quality posts