Merit sources don't need any incentive. The incentive is *for everyone else* to increase the quality of their posts, but that doesn't seem to be happening. So threads like this are both unnecessary and prove that the system is working by demonstrating that new members aren't ranking up too quickly.
I've said it before, and it seems like it's the general consensus that this forum probably needs more merit sources--especially on the local boards. But until sig campaigns start paying for posts there, that won't keep the non-English speaking population from trying to post in the main section and murdering the language in the process. There have been a couple of new merit source applications as of late, and that's encouraging.
People shouldn't be encouraged with monetary rewards for this because it will just lead to abuse and is one more system to game.
Word. OP might not realize that anything here that can be abused, will be.