I'm considering applying this principle on the local board - it is bad for merit circulation to allow unsued souce to expire.
High quality: 5-6 merits ( could be higher in some cases)
Medium: 3-4 merits
Normal: 1-2
This way members can have enough Smerits to Merit another member to help in circulation.
what are your thoughts on this ?
If they complain about amounts, tell them to complain to me. It's best if sources try to exhaust their source allocations, even if it means giving posts higher amounts than is typical. If you have 150 source merit and you only see 3 merit-worthy posts in a month, then I'd rather you over-give each of them 50 merit than let the merit expire. That way there are more people capable of sending merit, and the "merit economy" is less top-down.
This is a nice move towards devising for a means to evenly share the merits allocation to members and not only that, but to the quality and deserving posts, its not a bad idea, since we all have seen the likes of other merits sources having their own pattern in giving out merits to members, a good example is fillippone and we also have The Sceptical Chymist, which they all have their own unique way in distributing merits, everything has to do with an understanding as well as the required corporation needed from us to support this idea of yours and make it a reality, so from my end, i see this as a good initiative if implemented and could help in so many ways for the local board to continue to develop in activities.