To be honest, I just don't like the idea of giving merits on local boards. I am sorry if I sound like a bad guy but I would say that local boards feel the national pride and duty to help each-other to rank up and give merits to their compatriots.
I think the situation is following: People from poor countries help each-other to rank up to participate in signature campaigns with high payroll. That's probably why I see that person only gets merits from local boards while his/her posts in English language never get rewarded. This isn't fair and probably destroys the main idea of merit system on this forum.
Correct me if I am wrong, I have no problem with that but this is just what I see and notice.
What you mentioned is not actually false, because merit system is being misused in many places.
But we also have to keep in mind that Local boards are also a part of the forum and it's not that Shit posters roam here all the time. There are many good posters also, they spread their own community about Bitcoin and Crypto Currency by providing various information about its update or new technologies, which is a little easy to understand for many peoples.
And since the topic is Merits Sourcehere, I will say that Merits sources are given to those persons who will never abuse merit, because not everyone can be merit source and that's why only 110 people out of 3.57 million users are merit sources. Moreover, DT members are there to give red lights to their hand who abuse merits after getting merit from sources.
And I think there is no crime to join the signature campaign by getting merit and ranking up. Because the signature campaign is given for this reason, selected users are getting money through the signature campaign, and I think money is the best incentive for doing something good.