My response is not meant to be a personal attack to you but a chance to weigh on the growing trend of these types of threads. From my personal view they are not needed and the very least we could do is concentrate our efforts on existing threads instead of creating new ones.

I'm not accusing you of asking for merits and my response should be considered as talking generally. The psychology behind these threads is that people will see this as a charitable cause and get behind it by distributing merits this can be evidenced by the pre existing threads out there. Almost all threads of this nature have received merit. I'm not saying that these threads aren't effective because I'm sure they are to those that have sMerit that they want to give out but simply don't have the time to scour the whole forum. However this is where pre existing threads come into play and concentrating our efforts instead.

1. The admins have better things to do

2. Its so easy to hide your IP address