that's not gonna work. there's a lot of bounty hunters who has multiple accounts having merits. they just send each of their alts merits. and tadaa bonus for signature.
Few pages ago I supposed the probable solution of this problem:
The idea is interesting. This would encourage people to write quality posts and possibly further reduce the amount of spam in this forum. But on the other hand, capitalize merit quite difficult and it can result in a new wave of sales merit and will give the opportunity to influential accounts to capitalize on this. Merit as gratitude for useful information will almost never be applied.
To partly avoid the situation bounty reward could be paid not for the count of merit points but for how many
different users merited the message.
For example
1 user merited the message - 1 stake
2 users merited the message - 3 stakes
3 users merited the message - 8 stakes
5 users merited the message - 25 stakes
So it's not matter how many merit points you get from a single users
Also merited posts could be checked manually by the manager.
I just saw a manager today, using a particular method, in the person of Arteezy. He stated that every participants, irrespective of rank, to have at least 5 earned merits. This is still different from the author's suggestion though.
Earning merits in the cause of bounty, might be a difficult task, but it is achievable if it is included.
Could you send me a link to that campaign? Thanks