I do understand where you're coming from but few things to consider:
- Merit history is publicly available, so when you have few people sending all merits between each other that could actually work against them i.e. they could get rejected from signature campaigns if a manager cares to take a closer look.
- This is not unique to local boards and abuse (or in-group preference) could happen outside of local boards.
- Finally, the idea is (or should be) to have every board "covered" by someone who is a merit source, this doesn't mean that local board participants who are sources have to distribute all their sMerits there, they could do it on other boards. Distributable merits are not earmarked.
So it all boils down to whether the right people are chosen as sources and whether their monthly allowance is of the right size. And also to whether campaign managers are doing enough to fight spam/low-quality posts.
Maybe I was too tough here and probably you are right. Now I know what to do for the next time when I see merit abuse and I believe the ones who have power there, will act fairly and immediately.- Merit history is publicly available, so when you have few people sending all merits between each other that could actually work against them i.e. they could get rejected from signature campaigns if a manager cares to take a closer look.
- This is not unique to local boards and abuse (or in-group preference) could happen outside of local boards.
- Finally, the idea is (or should be) to have every board "covered" by someone who is a merit source, this doesn't mean that local board participants who are sources have to distribute all their sMerits there, they could do it on other boards. Distributable merits are not earmarked.
So it all boils down to whether the right people are chosen as sources and whether their monthly allowance is of the right size. And also to whether campaign managers are doing enough to fight spam/low-quality posts.
Now you have 2 sMerits from me, use it on your local board. I have another 9 sMerits but will keep them for other people, but to be completely honest, this user called o_e_l_e_o just drains my sMerits. I know he has tons of merits and doesn't really need one, is probably the most merited person but this guy is so educated, so helpful and posts so many genuine posts, I just feel guilty if I don't merit him
And still, I try not to merit him because wanna save them for other good people too