I know about that, but as I have observed; neutral feedback or trust mostly doesn't stop them from participating in bounty campaigns and they would still rank up, join them, and keep doing what they are doing unless they get banned, and in most cases, users aren't banned for doing something that gets them a neutral trust. Bounty campaigns usually only has
a rule against red trust and say nothing about neutral trust.
So, the point is to stop shitposter who rank up from their buddies to participate in signature campaign?
Deduction of merits for deleted posts isn't enough because there are many low quality post weren't deleted, it wouldn't enough to downgrade the shitposter.
De-merit is better, the post don't have to be deleted and it can downgrade the shitposter, if someone who abused de-merit, that user will receive punishment or taking off their ability to de-merit.