You don't need to cancel the rank. Just get rid of Junior signatures completely and only let them have a signature until the achieve Member rank with ten merit. Junior rank still has its place and I think the one merit requirement at least sets them apart from the worst or the worst of Newbies who can't even get that. Let's make them step it up before they're allowed to earn by posting here though and ten merit is a good aptitude test for that.
Yeah, this would be nice. But, judging by themos' words he doesn't want to add too many restrictions, and this one would likely be a little to harsh in his book. I support the idea though, especially if this current solution doesn't prove beneficial in a few months time. I guess this would be the final draw until removing signature campaigns themselves. Imagine the uproar in Meta if that ever did happen.
In fact, as a newbie, I also want to raise the rank and make money from bounty（honestly, every newbie has had this idea.）, but I seen a terrible fact after a while,the number of Jr.member's bounty participants is so large that I can't imagine it. I am angry that almost 90% of these Jr.member bounty participants posts were all of social media links. I think this is unfair, at least, for "humans" like me, this is not fair.
Today I found another fact. Many Jr.member got a merit today, and most of them are suspicious. I don't want to check if they are alt,beacuse this is a waste of my time. I just think 1 Merit may be too easy to get. If the lowest rank is member, the situation will be much better.