Actually we are the same case but in my local board there's a reason why our merit source didn't active interms of giving Merit. Because they are busy in their project.  And in additional merit source in global section are More generous than our local boards because some other members didn't create a constructive thread/reply
In their respective local boards because of the campaign they partisipated cause some campaigns did not accept Post from local boards.
So the merit source decides look  constructive post in global section.