the fact remains no signature person should be a merit source.
That goes against Bitcointalk's mission
to be as free as possible. The only difference between a Merit source and someone else is that a Merit source isn't allowed to sell Merit.
Ie I am a merit source I want to be a signature manager does anyone want to hire me. Is this the way merit sources became signature managers.
I haven't seen much abuse from Merit sources, and I've never seen something as obvious as "hire me because I'm a Merit source".