What complaints were these?  I don't recall hearing any bitching about the Chipmixer posse and their participants' earned merits or anything like that. 

It makes sense that Chipmixer would have a lot of the highest merited members in it, because DarkStar_ is very selective when choosing new members for it.  There isn't a merit requirement officially but I'm sure he takes that into account if there's a choice between a bunch of applicants, which there always is when a spot opens.  I really wish other campaigns would be more selective--maybe not as selective as the Chipmixer campaign, but the closer the better.  DarkStar_ also takes into account an applicant's trust score as well, so the campaign ends up with a lot of the best posters and some of the most trustworthy ones as well.  I think that's great.

Whoop, whoop!  I know this is a little off-topic, but how many campaigns even exist anymore?  Last I checked there were a lot fewer of them these days than there were in 2017.  I usually have the Services section on ignore so I don't see how many new ones are being started, but my guess is that there aren't many--not including token-paying bounties, of course.