Bumping this. Did you ever get any feedback or try to get feedback from theymos? It doesn't have to be this particular proposal, but it is clear that something must be changed.

Nonsense, it does not work at all. It merely punishes complete strangers at the expense of those who are connected to existing users or familiar with the ways of farming merit here.

Your course of action is: 'Because your personal earnings are at risk here, write a post that criticizes the idea and state that more spam is good and less spam is bad'. You are brilliant.