In reality, both support and criticism have no effect on who the admin assigns as a merit source. The admin personally told me to create an application for the reason that when he assigns new merit sources, he does not consider users individually, but looks for relevant threads in the meta using keywords.
that leader got 256 merits.
number 2 merit reception was only 97
number 3 merit reception was only 82. [...]
It seems that the difference between first and second place is 159 merits, and one can assume that my favorite author is GazetaBitcoin.
I should probably mention that you also have a favorite author, since the difference between the first and second place of those you sent merits to is 177.
Although in reality you probably should have looked at the other panel which says that I submitted 3267 merit 2180 times, to 471 profiles (not being the merit source). Btw, you sent 8790 merit 4496 times, to 1259 profiles (being a merit source).
To be honest, I have no idea how all these discussions regarding conflicts of interest relate to my appointment. But I am sincerely grateful to everyone who participates in the discussion, regardless of your opinion, since active discussion allows this thread to continuously remain at the top of the meta section.