Hey stephen!
How can I re-apply to the campaign?
Best chance to know the answer is wait for the Final announcement, based on the spreadsheet published in the OP, no new members were added yet, so I guess there's no final decision made yet.
I believe not all who got remove are spammers, so basically, they should be given a chance to work with stake again since some of them are really loyal to the campaign, and that loyalty if you are lucky to be selected again, will be compensated with a better rate.
Rate per post only has increase since max post were down to 30, so that would still lessen members income here compared to what they earned in the past which they can make over 100 posts a week, even if it's already spammy.
I think the main reason to pay more for higher ranks is that you can put real links in higher rank sigs (I think Jr and Member cant put links, just text, and for google this makes a difference). Higher ranks allows better visibility also.
Agree, but if stake values more the post quality over the signature visibility, then the new rate is just fair and reasonable.