I am, however, in favor of removing signatures from everything below Member rank, requiring 10 merits (or perhaps more) to display a signature.
butthe word is spreading that Meta is the place to go to earn merits.
Remember the week in which new requirements were introduced by theymos, how many merit topics were created. How many users complaining that they can't wear their signatures can not therefore work, followed by dozens of unnecessary and repetitive topics and guides, all of which in a desperate attempt to get a single merit.
Now imagine that there is a new requirement of 10 merits to wear a signature, and multiply all this garbage x10 for an extended period of time. How does that sound?
Question is...are we ready for what will inevitably become the biggest shitstorm in the history of bitcointalk...