The first concern which comes to my mind after this new implementation is that probably most newbies now will try everything to get their merit point(s) to rank up again to jr member and join the attractive signature & social media bounty campaigns again. Hopefully these individuals will truly research and create thoughtful and beneficial posts and thus deserve to rank up! This should always be the case in my opinion, but the signature campaigns force people to create a minimum number of weekly posts and therefore are making posts which aren't created out of a true intention, with many low/poor quality text as a result where so many people have to scrol through. The recently made changes can therefore result in an increase of quality and therefore the admins have my blessing! (even though i am now searching for my 1 merit point
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