If you view the spreadsheet, you will see a newly added section for posts that I consider meritorious. You can easily choose one member a week amongst the participants to award the merit to. I will also try to include the top posts of the week at the end of each round, but this is dependent of how much time I have available lol
Same here, even I am slacking on my Job board thread the last 2 weeks due to some offline work.
If only the forum allowed thread based mods other than the OP that the OP himself could pick and grant certain permissions.