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.
I don't know how merit allocation works on merit source and I don't know how much is given, not sure if there is anyway public members can know but I am of the opinion that a well meaningful thread, quality thread and no plagiarized thread that have some information for the local board should have a minimum of 1 merit. The source be the judge, give what you think the post deserves because thread quality can be subjective but no OP who dearly write and contribute to the local should go unnoticed, it will gel grow the community.
This is a very good initiative, there are many of local members here that are twerking around other boards even when they are not notice, this will surely bring them back to where they belong, contribute to your local and contribute to the general boards. We asked for this place and all effort to get it was fruitful, this will go along way to boost the local board like other local boards do support their own community with strick rules.