Honestly it doesn't matter if the rank rule is applied or not. Merit can be bought. So, managers apply the jr member rule and then there will be 500 new jr members the next week. Even if they don't buy the merit, users can start meriting their alts. They may even make a post that gets them 1 merit.
While introduction of rank requirement wouldn't stop altcoin farms entirely, I still think that it would make their life much harder. And I don't think that it would be so easy to buy merit at such a larger scale without any of the forum detectives figuring out what's going on.
Yes, but it still make it more difficult for some bounty spamming to participate in some bounty.
A solution has to go further then rank.
What's your take on solution for altcoin farms abusing bounty campaigns?
The only solution I could think of is, a bounty manager, hiring a special police team, or offering a special reward for an account farming detector who will do a thorough search on every participant of their bounty and also implement the only Jr or Member rank participation in their bounty.
A special badge can be provided for bounty hunters. New members must pay 10$ to the forum to get that badge to join the campaign.
This will never work.
1) This forum was said to be free as much as possible.
2) Bounty spammer will easily pay for the badge