Receiving lots of Merits should be hard to achieve, that’s the whole point, to encourage good posting and constructive posting habits. If theymos was to vastly increase the number of Merit sources it’s likely it’d be easier to receive Merit which cheapens it and means it’s easier to receive. The forum would be full of spam and low quality posts. Nothing good in life ever comes easily, try harder.
I really like the last line in your post - it's definitely true.I agree with your assumption - but in certain local board, the number of merit distributed is so low every month that many users are starting to expand to global board in forum and try everything to earn merit. Some of them really seem like merit fishing - but that's the reality. So in my opinion - for certain cases, adding some new merit sources might be an effective solution to increase the flow of merit on certain board including local board.
If what I said is wrong - I don't think @hugeblack will receive many requests on his thread.
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