I believe that it was the right decision on the part of the administration. The tables are cleared. A lot of bots will disappear. I do not argue - feel sorry for people who have long worked with an honest account, and then lost everything. But it will benefit the forum. We can again earn normally in the bounty, and not to share the award with the person who has 20 accounts.
I agree with you, I believe that it was a right decision too it will help the forum and those bots and people that are having multiple accounts will not be able to join in signature campaign because of the changing in the merit. I feel sorry too for those accounts and people that have been back to newbie because of the non-merit accounts.
And it seems to me that for those who had 20 accounts, this will be only a small problem, which they will decide by buying merit. It turns out an extra income for those who will deal with fraud with the purchase of merit. Cleaning the forum from the bots is necessary, but we need some more effective methods.