I personally haven't joined too many bounties yet, but analysed severel signature campaign. Based on my research:
- In average 47% of the participants in these bounties are JR members.
- In average, people get 2,6X more stakes / week, than a JR member.
Now, with the new system, 90+ % of these JR members became newbie, which means:
- There will be 42% less participants in these bounties.
- In average, people will get 3,7X more stakes / week, than a JR member.
And that will result, that EVERYBODY, who can participate, will earn 23% more tokens. Doesn't it sound great? And for that, all the newbies have to do is to earn 1 single merit. Is that hard? Not! All the experienced forum users say, it is easy, we just need to do some quality posts. Worth the effort IMO