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.
Each merit source has the right to distribute his monthly merit allocation in whatever format he wishes, inasmuch as it corresponse with the forum policy of adding value and ability to provide solutions to issues at hand. And as such, if you have decided to increase the number of merit that will be given to users base on how quality he/she contributes to local board discussion, I actually sees that as a nice idea, because such strategy will drive many to now focus on creating quality now rather than quality post on this our local board, and likewise will this move encourage other Nigerians who no longer post on our local board, now start to be posting on our local board. So it is actually a nice idea and I support it 100%.