I don't think that happens much in the English sections, but it could very well be the case on some of the local boards.
I think that's what sometimes happens, in some local boards. For some, the fact that they have difficulties in English does not motivate them to participate outside the local board of their language. If on your board, there are few sources of merits or no sources of merits, you may have a harder time leveling up.
Yes, you are right mates, there are a lot of users who are worthy enough to receive merits but they can't receive merits. On every local board, there are many merits worthy threads written in their language because of the reason that they are not a good English speaker. Merit source in every local board is very important to motivate his/her fellow countrymen to create more quality threads written in their languages.
Therefore, I congratulate the various sources of merit, who occasionally visit local boards (even when they don't know that language) in search of good topics/posts
Yes and one of those generous merit sources who visited in local boards is LoyceV as I experience that he gave some merits in my local boards Philippines, I don't know if he understand my language but still I admire him.