Over 2,500 newbies banned... Wow.

Pretty sure that the vast majority of signature spamming newbies have cheated their way to at least 1 merit now. Looks like high rank accounts are going to be destroyed faster than they are created now, 4 Legendary accounts wiped out, definitely takes a lot longer than 2 weeks to see 4 people rank up from Hero to Legendary these days.

Either way, merit destruction can be countered by producing more merit sources, or by more careful distribution of merit from current members.