Bounty managers who don't do their job and pay spammers are the reason we have the Merit system. Making them merit sources would be just as bad as removing Merit entirely.
You maybe right I can understand how you look at bounty managers as someone who only works for money. But protecting the integrity of the site would be so easy for them, because they are the main person who can really see directly how their bounty hunters are doing in the campaign. Moderators won't be having a hard time looking at each post each day. And besides this is what the bounty managers are supposed to do and is paid for, they are responsible for checking the posts of their bounty hunters and would be the same person who warns them if they are not doing good posts. They can also remove bounty hunters from the campaign anytime when they are not doing their job. Maybe you are just so pessimistic about ideas that seem to you as impossible especially from a newbie. There are so many bounty managers that are really good, I see Lauda as a good example. I have not participated in the campaign manage by him but as I have looked at the spreadsheets you can see how each spammers and shitposters are marked red or maybe banned. There are so many good bounty managers if you would only open your mind and not to dismiss them easily like...Sylon, wapinter, hotachy, olcaytu2005 and many others that are too many to list down, and they are not just anybody they are hero and legendary forum members that knows a lot. And if your problem is that they could only increase spam, then there is a solution to that, like when merits will be given only at the end of the campaign and only a few selected Bounty hunters will have the chance to receive it. This reward system can help bounty hunters create good and meaningful post. And because BMs are responsible for allowing bad posts they can be liable such that they can be warned and eventually be given demerit if still allowing bad post even if they have been warned.
This is really a stupid suggestion, as this could just be solved by not giving stakes to the spammers by the bounty managers rather than making bounty managers as merit source.
Calling these as a stupid suggestion is like calling good bounty hunters as stupid as well. Note that many BMs that are good are really high ranking forum members, the ones who ranked legendary and hero members. I have a lot of respect to the good BMs especially the ones I have mentioned even if I have participated or not in their campaigns. They are good and hardworking. I am very sorry to disappoint you but I really can't agree with you on this. Don't make it too general and complicated...thanks!
