Actually merit sources should not need merit at all. To avoid conflict of interest.
Give us extra, unpaid work to read more posts than usual to find some worthy of merit, then penalize us so we can't advance in rank?
Doesn't make sense... :/
How can you advance forward legendary?
But I didn't said you can't advance in rank, just that you don't need merits. Many merit sources have enough merit to the next rank already, that's why they don't need merit .. this is what I tried to say..