Lovesmayfamilis has warned us that Ratimov rarely sends merits now.
You will get nothing to apply here.
Ratimov himself never stated it that members should stop applying to the thread, what he meant was applying here does not guaranteed receiving Merits from him but other merit source or members with enough smerits could as well pick users from here and help, else if this thread isn't serving the purpose for it creation Ratimov himself would have lock the thread to end the merit help for newbies.
Absolutely right that mate this threads has not lock yet so it means it will runs over and over, even if ratimov sometimes can not pick or fulfilled the merits of some user who are applying here then if someone has a huge heart and want to send their few sMerits to the applicant then they will free to do that.
Absolutely right. In this thread, merit does not have to be submitted on my behalf, someone else can also help someone in getting a new rank. So it was before, when some participants also came here and sent their merits at their own discretion. So just because I stopped sending merits doesn't mean other users can't.
This thread help me a lot because through here I rank up to full member and in to senior member and I decided to donate some of my few sMerits here in this thread and I'll give this to the applicant above.