Why am I not surprised?

Good for yahoo62278 for implementing this; there's been talk over the years about campaign/bounty managers requiring a certain number of merits to get in to the campaign/bounty, but as far as I know there haven't been any real barriers put in place to keep shitposters out.  This is the first I'm hearing of a merit requirement to stay in a campaign.

It's obvious OP is fishing for merits here, so I'd advise people to look at his post and threads like this in that light.  It's not easy for the average person who's on the forum to make money to earn a single merit per week, so I'm expecting there to be more threads like this created by people desperate to stay in any campaign with a rule like yahoo62278's. 

I'm assuming this is the first time there's been a requirement like this, right?  As I said, I've never seen one like it before but I don't pay attention to various campaigns' rules.