Quote from: alani123 on February 21, 2024, 10:58:15 PM

But right now I know that there's an oversupply of merit.

Better have an oversupply than an undersupply. I think we have less merit sources comparably to last year, so if someone's going to replace this lack, be it icopress.

Quote from: alani123 on February 21, 2024, 10:58:15 PM

So it doesn't make much sense at this moment to have even more merit sources in my opinion, especially when there's years worth of backlog for local board merit sources.

It doesn't make sense to grant the merit source position randomly, but as far as my experience goes, icopress wouldn't merit uninteresting / minimum value posts.

Quote from: alani123 on February 21, 2024, 10:58:15 PM

For one, our local Greek board hasn't had even a moderator in months, let alone merit source applications from Greek speakers pending for years!

I'm a merit source. And the Greek board is quite dead, I hope we all acknowledge that. I agree that it needs moderation, but this is another discussion.

Quote from: JollyGood on Today at 11:01:27 AM

Merit sources have a responsibility to give merits in an unbiased manner but can we really state as a matter of fact that has been the case throughout?

Merit sources are supposed to merit whatever they like. Be it a high quality post, a joke, or a newbie question. That's why we have more than a hundred merit sources; simply because there's no "universal unbiased standard".