Day by day people are getting to know crypto currency, each day good number of interested people join the BitcoinTalk forum. The way the bounty qualifications and rank was in 2012 is not any more. Getting to the next rank is getting more difficult,KYC came in and many other changes, Now don't you think very soon most signature will only be opened to people from Full member and/or very few number will be given the chances of participation in many bounty campaign to have it convenient?
This problem is really making it difficult for a lot of low ranks. many members get discouraged by trying to create good posts but are not recognized, or merit numbers are too few for them to be promoted. Besides, there are now many problems with selling merit, a merit costs about $ 5 and this is crazy. That's why you see many account members rank often spam or create posts very boring and not constructive.