I think the idea is to require at least that much earned merit (not airdrop) to be able to wear a signature. I kinda like that. I'd make it a requirement per time period, e.g. 1 merit per 3 months or so, to further devalue farmed accounts.
Totally agree with this suggestion. It would level the playing ground for all members of this forum who want to participate in bounties at-least merit wise. Very many underlook certain ranks and think it's only Newbies and Jr. Members who do shitposting since they constitute the biggest number of those trying to do bounties, but honestly I have seen full Members and Senior Members who have never attained even a single merit since the system was put in place(all they have is Airdropped merit). All they post is only garbage to fulfill their weekly post count for signatures.
Maybe the top forum admins would just make it a rule that bounty managers
must follow certain criteria when awarding stakes, those that don't do so shall be considered to encourage spamming and risk their bounty thread being deleted by mods if reported.