...by observing how DS chooses the campaign candidates you can tell that he usually looks for the best canditiate/s within certain boards and not just the best overall, or else he would simply count on the number of earned merit, but that isn't the case.
Honestly... Merit is probably the most useless metric of how to judge a users "quality".
I see all these "self-made legendary" bragging posts on some of the boards

such merit, much "quality", very wow

Especially when you see some of the things people getting merit for... endless pages of "stats" posts? Yep, "quality" stuff right there... people dropping "20" merits on an [ANN] thread for a popular project? obviously 11/10 "quality"... pretty much anything in Reputation and/or Meta

I understand why merit was implemented, but unfortunately I don't think it has really been successful with regards to it's desired outcomes.
