Honestly I have taking some time to go across this our board and I have actually seen some posts wey make sense but did not receive any merit.
Let's be honest if person take out time to make good post and the post actually make sense it can serve as an encouragement to that person if they get at least a merit as a sign of recognition.
Less of the talk on merits sources, we can have them and also never get the necessary satisfaction we desired, because obviously it's not every thread or user that is going to attract being merited by these sources, considering their monthly allocation and some other factors, am not saying this to side anyone, but I think it's high time we all take dlfull responsibility for our own self and work harder to earn more merits from other boards aside the local board, this is my own take and I think we are also falling under the same obligations of not meriting the necessary quality post if we see one, we don't have to be a source before we can merit a post, it's individual's responsibility at their own discretion and same applies to the sources as well, they give base on how convinced they are about any post being a quality one.
How do you merits a post if you don't receive merits or if the merits aren't in circulation enough?
Enough merits in circulation then enough merits are being given out to people who deserves it. Yes I support what you are saying but of recently other sources has been so tight about their merits except for few people who are doing merits review to users who are applying on their threads and these people aren't biased on their merits distribution provided you applied on their thread they would definitely merits such post without any partiality.
As you can almost everyone who grows here gained their merits from English board especially those who are that technically enough to post at the technical board do gain their merits from those area and come back here to distribute them, this shows that we need more merits source for the merits to keep circulating the board, the work are tight for the already existing source so we need additional sources to make work easier for them. For example we had two people from our local board who applied and also there are also already existing pending application which we need theymos to review it as well to know why there are so much worries about merits.