I don't visit the services boards, or the marketplaces. I did have a go at selling and discussing crypto domain names, but I got very few views, and no replies. I think your post shows that there has been a major shift in the membership here, and I'm not really interested in the threads about earnings from bounties and ICOs. I do try to help by visiting the beginners and discussion boards, but the pickings are fairly lean there these days.
I am not talking about you bro unless you are an merit source,so there is no merit source for those section. 
Ever though that the merit sources are out of merit and waiting for another week or so to be topped off?
This is exactly what i was highlighting in my thread (for reference only: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2961141.0).
As long as merit sources only are a small group of persons, the whole system will stay centralized and will be susceptible to individual "mistakes". How many merits you will get is highly depending on which merit source is going to review your posts and will therefore always be an individual decision.
But as per theymos if you want to be a merit source be a somewhat established member of the forum.Can someone explain me on that so I am also willing to apply as a merit source.