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).
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yes i think that is what theymos is doing now. i dont think the new merit sources that was appointed was given above 100 merit per member, because some old merit source with high allocation are whimpy in terms of given out merit. and as a result of this, it seems there are no merit source why they are. instead of given 300 merit allocation to one single merit source, it is good to shear among 3 sources 100merit each or 6 sources at 50 merit each to help cover up in many places in the forum, as some merit source claim not to find some post worthy of merit maybe others with same allocation will distribute. if merit allocation is sheared among sorces, i know theymos will then observe and increase the allocation of those who are dishing our wisely to meritable post or those that does the perfect job as desired by him.
but it seems like a lot of work for members to be distributing 500-1000 smerits every month..
those that have up to 500 to 1000smerit above often create threat for quality post application either in the local board or the English board as a way of saving themselves the stress of singlehandedly looking for good or quality post to merit.