Quote from: hosseinimr93 on December 13, 2021, 08:21:48 PM

There are 111 merit sources with a total merit generation of up to 34139 sMerit per 30 days. [Ref.]
I think that's enough. The last time theymos appointed new merit sources was July 5.
Number of merit sources increased from 97 to 111 and total number of source merits generated per 30 days increased from 21171 to 34139.

Thanks for the info. I was not aware of it.

Quote from: kawetsriyanto on December 13, 2021, 10:45:33 PM

Quote from: naim027 on December 13, 2021, 07:22:51 PM

I found a few Profiles who usually don't send merits to others for some reason. Some of them either forget how to send Merit or believe In HoDling sMerit.

Are those merit holders still active and regularly log in to this forum? If they are no longer active, we can understand why they didn't send their sMerit.
But for those merit holders who are still active in this forum, it is very unfortunate to know they don't care about spending their sMerit. Well, they may think they have no obligation to send their sMerit, but what's the purpose of holding it? No worth of holding sMerit, it is not BTC. Grin

Yes. They are active on the forum. But They keep HoDLing Their sMerit. Maybe they think Merit total Supply will be finished in near future. After that s-Merit will be rare and they will sell them. Grin

Quote from: kawetsriyanto on December 13, 2021, 10:45:33 PM

Not sure to say we will have a merit crisis without merit sources. There are still many generous members who regularly spend their sMerit although they are not a merit source. But I can agree if merit sources have a big role to spread sMerit. Without them, sMerit can be very limited and possibly lead to a crisis if the awareness of spending merit among members be worsen.

Even all member spends their s-Merit, There will be a merit crisis after a certain time if theymos remove merit sources. Because you get 0.5 sMerit for 1 merit.

Quote from: The Pharmacist on December 13, 2021, 11:12:59 PM

Quote from: naim027 on December 13, 2021, 07:41:07 PM

I listed only Active members.

I've got no problem with those so-called merit hodlers. Everyone's got their own opinion of the system and no one is required to participate in it, so I wouldn't be quick to lay a guilt trip on them. Just my opinion.

Since everyone has their freedom about merit. We cannot blame anyone for that. I just shared this to show the importance of merit sources.

Quote from: Shamm on Today at 01:02:27 AM

Quote from: naim027 on December 13, 2021, 08:08:54 PM

Right. But, As far I know we have 111 Merit sources only. it's been a long time since theymos didn't add any new merit sources.

Yes, we have 111 merit sources but not all active givers because of some reason. If theymos add some merit source I think must be better if he adds in other local boards who suffering to get merit.
Cause many local boards only have a few or worst 1 merit source. But in overall there's still generous giver in the global section all we need to do is report unmerited post/thread so that some active merit source take an action.

I am not sure if all of them are active or not. But Bitcointalk is a large community. Even if all of them are active, I doubt maybe they cannot cover the whole community. I don't know about others, But I am upset about my local thread. There are a lot of Potential good members. I know A few Local boards and thread has Dedicated Merit Sources. But we do not have any merit source for our local thread. There is a Pending Merit Source Application by @BitcoinDream. I would like to quote one of my Post From there for everyone;

Quote from: naim027 on December 01, 2021, 08:52:55 AM

BUMP, All the way up.

We were expecting a dedicated local board. An application has been pending for a while. We Bangladeshis are still limited to one thread. We have no local board. Some countries do not have local boards. There is only one reason. High-rank members are not active in this thread. The thread creator created it as self-moderated, and he himself is not active. As a result, even though there is a low-quality post (One Line Post), there is no one to watch. There are only 2-3 active brothers, of which Little_Mouse & Review Master brothers are the most active in this thread. The local board application has been pending for a while now but is not being approved. Just because most of the high-ranked members don't contribute there. Here are a few reasons,

If you visit the Local board often, You will see a lot of Questions raised by newbies. They ask a lot of things about bitcoin but the reality is most of the member doesn't reply to them just because they are newbies. This is true that when you will give a lot of effort to writing a good post and only newbies read that, You won't get merited. I think this is the only reason why newbies don't get their questions answer. If your board has few High-rank members, Then the case is a bit different. If you write a good post on the local board, Your Other good ranked local board mate will appreciate your post. But, If there are only a few people. Your post won't be appreciated. This is the reason why people don't contribute to their local board. I think Our Merit source Members should visit Local boards more Often and take a look.

Look like we are not going to get a Merit source in near future. Sad

Look like a bunch of Merit sources are already engaged on this thread. I am seeking attention from Our Respectable Merit sources @LoyceV, @The Pharmacist, @suchmoon, @Royce777. I am here to share a few stats

Number of Post Per Local Board

Merit Per Post Ratio

*This data could be wrong, I will update as soon as I get an update from Rikafip.

Quote from: PrimeNumber7 on Today at 03:25:58 AM

Even if everyone spent all their sMerit, the merit system would eventually run out of sMerit. Without merit sources, the total amount of merit that could be sent would be appropriately (but under) the amount of merit that was air dropped.

Right. Agree with you. I think everyone knows how the Merit system works.