I personally think that merit sources should have as a requirement, a minimum number of sent merits per month, and per X board, in order to keep their merit source badge active.
So if I don't want to read certain posts, I could either lose my Merit source status, or just Merit a random post.
Of course, it's merit source's discretion to give merit on what posts, my point is there should be number of merits given on X number of boards, not what OP says of 1-2 merits per post/comments/thread on such boards mentioned.
...MiningBuddy was the mod assigned to B&H, Since he was dormant for so long and I made a post about it Theymos removed it in the thread I sited in the OP..
Yeah, i remember, that's it. It's been requested many times.