Today 90 of Meta topics is about merit 
. I see plenty of right people who got their applications finally approved. Congrats to everyone - you got what you wanted, so, now spend your sMerit wisely!
. I see plenty of right people who got their applications finally approved. Congrats to everyone - you got what you wanted, so, now spend your sMerit wisely!The decision to remove inactive merit sources is really great. Even some new merit sources have been added which is definitely good news. But the number of merit sources has been reduced which is definitely bad news. Maybe it would have been a good decision to replace the inactive merit sources with some new active and sensible members as merit sources. Because the forum lacks merit sources who will read the posts regularly and give merit to the deserving posters. Although there is an alternative thread for this, I think it would be better for active merit sources to find the posts and give merit than to report the posts.
I don't see reduced number of merit sources as bad news. I think it's better to have 88 merit source who is actually active, than having over 100 when significant part of them is inactive. Offcourse, it would be best to have 109 actually active merit source, but maybe theymos don't see enough right people for it.Personally, I would like to see more than 200 merit source members, even though understandably it is likely quite a bit of work to be overseeing merit source members.
Another thing that might be good, if there are more merit sources would be to have a reduction of the average merit source to be something like 100-300 per member who is a merit source).. sure I know that some members are below 100 source merits and some are above 300 source merits (if we calculate the current average to be around 360-ish per month). Of course, it is likely warranted to start some members off at a smaller smerit source number, and so maybe any of them that are passing and doing acceptable smerit distribution would end up with at least 100 smerits per month, and to work their way up to potentially higher monthly numbers, and sure it could be possible that some members can handle their higher source merit quantity.. but it seems like a lot of work to be distributing 500-1000 smerits every month.