Excellent data dump and presentation, Rikafip! Lately I've been wondering about merit distribution on the local boards, and everything you presented in your last post pretty much answers every question I had, so thank you.
I wish there was some way I could help out with handing out merits in local sections, but I don't speak any of the languages. If I were to be willing to trust a trusted member reporting an unmerited post that was worthy of merit (in their opinion) and merit it myself, do any of you think that would present a major issue? The only reason I want to do this is because I know some boards don't have their own merit sources (or simply enough merits to go around). If I could inject a bunch of merits into a local board, hopefully they'd continue to circulate among the members there.
Good idea, bad idea?
Thank you, I think it's a very good idea.
In fact, A few years ago in the Croatian part of the forum I started the topic where local members can report their quality posts and get merits.
A lot of the reported posts are in English so you can review them in person and possibly reward them with merit if you think those posts deserve it.
Topic is here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4265795.0So far in the Croatian part of the forum we have had the problem that a lot of quality posts are not sufficiently rewarded with merits due to the lack of local merit sources and it has recently finally changed.