Re: Incentive to the Merit Sources to Achieve their Quota?

People shouldn't be encouraged with monetary rewards for this because it will just lead to abuse and is one more system to game.

Exactly!
I have a much better incentive: with Merit, I can help improve the forum.

Note that merit sources don't have "quota", it's a maximum.

I think that most merit sources do not need any merit.
Actually merit sources should not need merit at all. To avoid conflict of interest.

Merit isn't only meant to rank up, it's also meant to highlight quality posts. Exluding people from that doesn't make sense.

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?

How can you advance forward legendary?

Vod and I are in a quiet race. First, he congratulated me on overtaking him, then he overtook me, and now he's closing in again Cheesy