I also don't say Royse did good or bad. I think that the measure of all this should be the quality of posts in his campaign(s). If a spammer is allowed to spam, then yes, the complaints are more legitimate. But until then, all this is hypothetical at best.
I also do not see anything particularly positive or negative here. It is certainly unusual. I trust that Royse meant well, but I am not so sure about his methods. It is my belief that the management of a bounty campaign should have discretion in their decisions, unless it impacts the larger community. Sure, the manager can choose whoever they want for the campaign, that is not the main issue here.
I have to agree that what he is doing by accepting members and then asking them to have neutral removed doesn't make much sense to me
That part does not make much sense to anybody. The only thing I can think of is it being something related to Royse777 using it in future to have another attempt at having their own feedback revised.
The common sense approach would be to simply ask applicants that were on the verge of being selected for campaigns but refused because of negative or neutral tags to simply try to have the them removed then re-apply to join campaigns.
Apart from having ulterior motives for selecting participants then asking/forcing them to ask members to remove tags as a prerequisite to stay within the campaign, nothing else comes to mind and this is yet another error of judgement in a long line of errors by Royse777.
I have no idea what ulterior motives you suspect him of having. Do we know what kind of neutral tags he asked to be removed? I cannot find such information, and unfortunately, trust feedback is not archived anywhere.