I was surprised to learn that the thread was started in 2018 and has only had 12 successful participants to date, and that compared to the other merits to Newbies/Jr.members threads, yours has the least amount of activity. I believe your rules killed the thread; why would any Newbies/Jr.members go through such rules for only 1 merit/post & 3 posts max. When they could create encryption and sign a message in the Ognasty thread in fewer than 24 hours, they would receive a total of 6 merits. Either the rules are not friendly enough, or the offer is too poor.
Yeah, it's the rules thing. Too many requirements, but also the fact that many didn't have anything good to share to begin with. But the rules are the reason it was allowed to remain. I think Ognasty's offers came later, and they weren't around at the time I started my thread. But your rules at least made newbies try hard, and not create many alternative accounts. In other threads, I see that newbies from the first post go and sign messages, create topics with guides according to forum rules, encrypt messages. In your opinion, are they also newbies?
I believe that the topic is somewhat misnamed.
Generous givers are those who are not a source of merit. Since the distribution of merits is their responsibility, and if you carefully read the reviews, the merit sources sometimes wonder who to distribute their due merits for the distribution.
And of course, you can give it out even to newbies participating in the bounty, so that you can be called a generous donor in the future.
