In the Croatian section for more than 3 years we have a topic where local members can report their quality posts and get merits.
You can see topic here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4265795.0Submitted posts can be in both Croatian and English and I would not agree that the posts awarded with merits were of lower quality than those written in the English part of the forum.
This topic has actually helped members of the local community not to miss the quality posts of other members and that all such quality posts can be rewarded with merits.
The same situation exists with the thread I've moderated so far
[HELP]Bantuan untuk menaikkan Rank (Newbie s.d Hero) V.2 [UPDATE]. The purpose of the topic is to help users get merit for their quality posts if the post doesn't get enough merit but not for users who already have a Legendary rank. In many cases maybe not all submitted posts will get added merit as I and some Local contributors will review the post and if all submitted posts are not quality or low quality then most likely the merit is not worth them. It's just that all posts submitted must be in the local language.