BPIP shows 376,866 active accounts, which means they've logged in within the past 3 months. But only
19453 accounts have received 1 or more Merit points. Many of these got it through Merit abuse.
Beautiful--that's exactly what I was looking for. I really ought to learn how to use Vod's site, eh? I now feel like a dipshit for not finding that info myself, and I have that page bookmarked so it's not like I don't visit it.
It took me 3 months of daily bumps and many endorsements to become a Merit source. Since then, the total number of sources went up from
80 to
84. That's about 1 new Merit source per month.
I think that was way too long to get approval, and as I said in another thread, I think there should probably be at least 250 merit sources, but that's probably too optimistic. You kind of have to be trusted in order to be a merit source. There is certainly potential for it to be abused, given how valuable merits are. I'm not sure if the forum has 250 members who are active enough AND could demonstrably be trusted with the responsibility. I could be wrong.
Maybe 100 merit sources needed as a start, for now?
That would be a good start, I think. There's only 84 right now, so it would certainly help.
Does anyone think giving out more sMerits per good post would help? If I'm not mistaken, merit sources get topped up pretty quickly so giving out 5-7 merits for a good post shouldn't put much of a ding in their supply. I don't really know how many the sources are giving out per post, and I also don't think the number of members who truly deserve to rank up is all that high.
If that
ranking up pipeline thread keeps getting updated, that would be a good place to look for members needing merits. I have that one bookmarked, but not all of those people make good posts.