Heya all,

not sure how this actually goes and how the merit application should look like. I'll try my best here:

Who am I?

I'm a campaign manager (Cro2 team with Trofo). Together we run competitions (paid pools) in the gambling part of the forum and I spend most of my time there.
I'm a BTT member since 2018, constant DT1/DT2 member and 170. in the list of most recognized BTT users.
I write mostly in gambling boards (where I also work) and in the Croatian local section. We have enough merit sources there, so I'd spend most of mine in the Gambling boards.

What I want to accomplish

I want to do my best to improve the gambling section of the forum - to reduce the amount of spam and to encourage/incentivize meaningful discussion there.
A lot of members think that the gambling boards are the cesspool of the forum and it would be great if we could try and change that perception a bit.
Yep, it's full of spam and yep, people write there to fulfill their campaign quotas - but it's also the place of the forum where BTC is used the most - in pools, sidebets, etc.

It has some great topics and great conversations, but it isn't really a part of the forum in which Merits are given that often. By changing that, I feel that we can improve the quality of the posting there little by little.

How I'd like to accomplish that

I would announce that a new merit source is available there, exclusively for these boards, one that would merit interesting new threads/topics and meaningful conversations.
I hope that, by meriting quality, there would be more incentive for the majority of members to write something meaningful and interesting - because they would finally realize that they can improve their account rank in the gambling boards as well.

Examples of the types of posts I'd merit

* please note that I just collected these in 10 minutes or so - there are certainly better examples.
The posts that would be merited would be OP's of original and interesting threads and posts with some interesting infos/opinions.

1. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5460971.msg62599353#msg62599353
2. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5438071.msg62734618#msg62734618
3. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5461543.msg62625683#msg62625683
4. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5461543.msg62657048#msg62657048
5. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5330519.msg62697565#msg62697565
6. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5406159.msg62723627#msg62723627
7. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5462153.msg62734775#msg62734775
8. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5249415.msg54973910#msg54973910
9. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5458296.msg62493294#msg62493294
10. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5288319.msg62713526#msg62713526

Final thoughts

Gambling boards are both a horrible place and a great one at the same time - depending on which threads you read.
I'd like to tip the scale in favor of the great ones a bit.