It would be nice to have a merit source on the local board but sadly the board is not that active. There are a lot of topics but they are not up to date. Maybe we should return to our local board and start being noisy again. I don't know if there is a merit source giving merits on the local board or busy giving merits on the international board.
I think if your intention to post on your local board to increase the activity to seek theymos attention, I think it's not gonna work since I believe it will encourage spam, not high quality post. Well although the merit source is from local board, he doesn't owe anything to merit his local board since it's up to him. Maybe he doesn't see any high quality post in his local board, so he's just send a high quality post in global board.