We're about to take advantage of our population here as well
Yeah. it was just a matter of time. Due combination of crypto popularity in your country, size of the population and the fact that you can (I guess) make an average monthly salary via signature campaign, I do expect you to eventually surpass Russian board as well.
You're right a Full member rank single week payment is better than our current minimum wage so yeah some members actually live a decent life off signature campaigns.
While I agree that amout of merit sources is important, I don't think that its crucial for the growth of local board (at least not for the organic growth, without alt account farms). After all, both Russian and Turkish local boards don't have higher merit per post ratio than you so I wouldn't say they have advntage over you in that aspect.
With that being said, I do think that you need more merit sources and hopefully you get them the next time theymos decided to readjust the merit.
As much as I appreciate the external merit source's efforts to assist us and put us in competition with the Russian and Turkish boards, I must point out that those merits are not given organically; instead, they are given based on what a few individuals think of other users' posts, and most of the time these individuals favour only a specific circle rather than the entire board. I don't want to get into too much detail, but having a local dedicated merit source will make a lot more sense than what we currently have.
We have two pending applications at the moment.....