What is even the point of having a merit system that isn’t based on being meritorious but is significantly based in cronyism and begging?
Allow me bring this reply of yours to your notice and maybe you can check for yourself how contradictory you sound right now.
here , you are okay with how the merit system works but seem to have a big issue when it concerns the Nigerian local board?
You think most Nigerian posters are being helped by merit sources like the ones you mentioned? SMH! Your assumptions make me lightheaded and I really wonder if you move around the forum and see how other boards abuse the merit system or are you just bothered the Nigerian community ijavascript:void(0);s progressing. Allow yourself to be happy for others for once bro.
I was being sarcastic. That reply you linked to was actually intended to be a criticism of the merit system. If you look at the screenshot I included it is of a user who is getting most of his merit from a single thread. He has also only given merit on that thread. We can definitely see that that thread is used by his local community to quickly rank up their accounts to participate in signature campaigns. I don’t know what language that is but this type of thing is not exclusive to Nigerians, it happens in other Local communities, the OP just probably noticed it more with Nigerians based on his interactions and singled them out.