Now you have the responsibility of being a merit source, so congratulations to you and members of your local board. I am not a merit source, but my tip is to do things in your style and in your own way and establish yourself as a generous merit source in your local board.
You can create a thread for users to apply like the way hugeblack and fillippone did/doing and also create a thread to review posts like the way The Sceptical Chemist did or meriting Posts on your style.
Congratulations.
Better for Cryptoaddictchie to do things their own way, if they are very active on the forum, reading many posts per day, then there is no need to create a "merit application thread", because they will find a lot of merit worthy posts per day.