The bump (or more like re-balancing) seems to be having an effect - it was ~14900-ish just a few hours ago.
Whenever a merit source's source amount is adjusted upward or downward, it is immediately completely replenished. This'll be a factor.
And yeah, my first inclination was to PM Theymos, but I've never done that, don't think he likes me all that much, and didn't think I'd get any sort of response. I'm sure he gets tons of PMs daily, and I don't know how he responds to them.
How I handle PMs:
- I try to at least skim all PMs. Rarely I might misplace some, but usually not.
- If I feel ready to immediately resolve your PM, and I feel that it is a reasonable request worth my time, then I do it. Often this is replying to questions or doing simple tasks, but sometimes I'll have already been working on / thinking about it for days/weeks/months and your PM will get me to devote a few hours to finally resolving the thing right then and there. If even newbies ask questions which I consider reasonable, I usually answer!
- If I am not ready to act on your thing, often due to uncertainty or lack of immediate time, then your issue enters my "leaky queue". Unfortunately, a lot of these things never end up getting done. (But I do try to get to the most important ones.)
You have to do a lot more than disagree with me to get me to dislike you. And even if eg. MemoryDealers came to me with some reasonable issue with his usage of the forum, I'd handle it like I would for anyone else.
It says "Administrator" under my name, not "President". Anyone is free to PM/email me.