Theymos was thinking to create a different type of account when you create account for a bounty hunters and regular members. There was something mentioned for the bounty managers as well. I'll find it and i'll post ti.
I don't think there are new badges like what you said. There are misconception that signature campaigns, bounties belong to the forum. In fact, they are not. From that, I don't see theymos have reasons to create new badges for campaign managers and/ or bounty hunters.
He only wrote (or forum users proposed) that if things become worst, there will likely required fees to wear signature, and companies have to pay some fees per fixed period (monthly, eg.) to run their campaigns or bounties.
It's too early to get a clear picture, but my thoughts so far:
First, most people complaining about merit are constantly posting garbage, and should not rank-up. The forum is not a welfare system; you don't run through a few hoops and then get paid for doing something that nobody actually wants. I like that good forum members can make money, especially when said forum members are in poorer countries and this is a major opportunity for them. I very much do not want to destroy the sig-ad/airdrop/bounty "industry". But I am not going to tolerate people posting garbage upon garbage. If the merit system completely fails and I can't think of anything else to replace it, then my next step will probably be to completely remove all ways for forum users to make money from posting (eg. removing signatures entirely).
He only said if merit system fails (what it has not failed, fortunately), he will consider to remove all signatures globally in the forum. If all signatures removed, there are no reasons to have such badges for bounty hunters and bounty/ campaign managers.
here we go again.