I'm afraid the new-newbies will dominate this forum to get one merit, back to their old rank Jr. Member and continue signature campaign.
Forum will full of new spam-topic, instead spam-post. That's terrible.
If signature campaigns only accept Member or higher, I think we will have a fresh forum.
What's your idea ?
I think that the new merit system is to help limit spam, as well as improve the quality of posts and comments. It's true to say that this is makingdifficulties for signature campaign, but I believe the teams of bounty projects also will have a new idea to develop their signature campaign in another way soon.