Bitcoin Smith is the only individual who has submitted his topic and also requested an extension. I am going ahead and extending this competition till the 15th of this month. I am not sure why no one on this board is creating topics as they used to be. When you have a chance to win Bitcoin before the bull run for free, you should participate in such a competition. @Parvati_j you have still time and for others who are active on the local board you have this wonderful opportunity. None of the other local boards give such an opportunity.
I have updated the OP.
If lack of merits is the factor then that should not be a problem here on. Let people show a little bit of activity with well thought out and useful posts.
I also sent some merit to you @pakhitheboss so you can have sMerit top-ups. Lets get this wagon rolling. Would love to see who bags the prize. i would say that keep extending the competition till we have some good traction. I can help top-up the prize pool when this one ends.
It doesn't make any sense meriting OP in this case. Although I am not against meriting OP but the reason you stated is conflicting with the purpose of this thread.
1. If you want to merit useful posts you can do it directly by giving merits to useful posts instead of meriting OP and then hoping him to merit others.
2. This topic is for identifying useful posts and rewarding the author with BTC and not merits (as mentioned in OP).
In my opinion, what Mr amishmanish did there is not a bad one. Since the op is the host of this contest, giving some merits to either have smerits to share isn't a bad idea. Besides the op deserves even more for stretching out a generous hand of giving from his own pocket, just to increase or help the activities of our local board to grow. However adding merit to the contest would even make it more fun.
Op thanks for this generous act.