I feel like the beginner and help board seems weird without a mod assigned to it like others, look the imagine below. (If no mod is assigned to it specifically, at least a few words description like others will fill up that gap).
Regarding this concern, @EFS already explained the whole situation that I was going to write about actually. Once you report a post, it goes to global moderators, including all moderators, I believe. However, global moderators could visit and take action in all the boards.
Also, I feel like some simple comments or post in the beginner and help board and bitcoin discussion board, needs 1 or 2 merits which they may not be getting because no merit source is assigned specifically to each of this board since you gave new merit source, some needs to be more concentrated on a specific board that will make a little bit of sense.
Merit source is really not a paid job, and they aren't distributed for each board. But I can say most of the merit-deserved posts have been merited. I often visit that section, and I distribute merits to whoever deserves them. I admit some posts would be underestimated or not noticed by the merit source. Then you may link them on the reputation merit thread. Remember, all the users can merit on the post; it doesn't necessarily mean only the merit source will distribute their merits.