I agree, an essential part for a local board growth is by stimulating those that are on the local board that really want to contribute through their posts. I guess though it’s an easier task to do when there is a steady largish flow of posting going on, making it clearer to state a case.

I’ve taken a look at what local boards seem to have a Merit Source with at least partial dedication. I may be wrong in some of the cases where the Merit Source distributes a small amount of sMerits (and I may therefore not detect it). In addition, some of the Merit Sources are Staff in some of the Local Boards, which is probably a good starting point if there is room for that kind of task alongside the regular tasks.

-   What looks like no assigned Merit Source: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, Greek, Hebrew, Indian, Korean, Philippines, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Skandinavisk.

-   What looks like a Partial/Dedicated Merit Source: Croatian, French (recent), German, Indonesian, Italian,  Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish.

Some of the above strike me as strange. For example, the Chinese community do not seem to have a Merit Source, but perhaps the initial sMerit airdrop still keeps them going.

Your local Romanian board is perhaps similar in size to the Croatian one, which does seem to have a Merit Source.

I think it would be good for all local boards to have a Merit Source, even if it were to be a small one in terms of assigned sMerit. Sometimes a staff member will suffice, whilst others a regular forum member would need to undertake the task at hand. Here again Trust may be an issue when determining a potential Merit Source, and language a barrier in terms of ease of supervision.