Am not sure if moderator = merit source so definitely it would be a big benefit for us on the polish board on the other hand wwzsocki seems a capable at an attempt to bring back some life to Polish Local Forum Board as the activity is dying down and on top of that there is no way to organise the threds ie. moderate
IMHO value of merit points is related to amount of advertising campaigns that people can apply for which with the space being saturated with huge number of competing projects reached certain threshold bringing the effectives of signature campaign down for the satoshi spent