Quote from: FedKosco on October 06, 2018, 10:00:57 PM

<...>I'm afraid that now a newbie first of all needs to spend time on creating something useful on the forum to earn Merit, necessary for account development. This will provide an opportunity to further participate in the bounty campaigns.

One thing to consider is that, in order to develop an account as you put it, the goal should not be solely to gain that single merit that enables you to enter bounty campaigns. That is enough for now, but maybe not in the long run. Besides, it is way better to give your account a character by contributing to the forum through meaningful posts. A posting history with heavy social reporting and/or low quality posts, that contribute to the campaigns weekly quota but nothing else, are likely going to be counterproductive in the short to long run.

If you do engage in campaigns, Id suggest the following:

-    Try to have an equilibrated posting history between regular posts and social reporting. A good example in my opinion is coinlocket$, who does social reporting, but also contributes through decent regular posts to the forum.

-   Post that are made towards the count for the campaigns weekly quotas should be thought through, investing some time into them, and avoiding writing quick one-liners for the sake of speeding the count along. This attitude often gets resolved as spam and could lead to account ban.

-   Never be tempted to copy/spin/paste content. That leads to immediate ban of the account once detected, and believe me there are many people who spot these posts with ease and overtime.