I understand where you are playing at smartgold01 but you need to understand that I'm in no competition with anyone... Good luck on your application...
To be a merit source might be in his mind before and it could be a coincidence. But if something is happening three times already, then you can think it is copycat but two times is just to draw attention first. Also I think it would be better to overlook something like this and let us expect something good from theymos. What that matters most is if anyone given a merit source m, the person should use it for the progress of the good posters on this forum. I wish you both to become a merit source one day but theymos has been very slow about it since few years ago.
Let's call a spade a spade, is good no one knows what the next person is thinking and if you see someone who's doing something because the next person started it we should know and this very @sGOLD is someone who likes everybody to notice whatever she's doing in this community and I'm not here to hide what I have to say, is best we point out the truth than pretending with words just not to offend someone.
We all talk about this not to be a competition but I'll tell you all for free that some of these guys take everything that goes on here as a competition and this very one is an example. Like you said Charles
"if something is happening three times already, then you can think it is copycat" and for the first time I have to agree with you and say it that @sGOLD is a copycat with how she went about the whole thing, this eye service of a thing is too much, no two ways about it. But is left for @Theymos to decide on who to make a merit source, how I wish it has to do with a vote depending on the LB the applicants are coming from.