I know I've already lent my support to dkbit98's application, but I'd like to do so again--and I'm wondering why Theymos apparently hasn't added any new merit sources to replace the ones that (I think) have dropped out in the past year or so.
Him being silent about merit and not approving anyone for almost year and and a half (if I am not mistaken) means that he is obviously satisfied with the current merit numbers. That of course doesn't mean that people should stop trying to get merit source position.
Members aren't bitching about how hard it is to rank up anymore, but that doesn't mean it got any easier. To the contrary, I think it's harder than ever, and I also think a lot of members have just given up trying to rank up nowadays. It should be hard to do so, but not that hard.
One thing that might cause the issue is the fact that some merit sources who had among biggest monthly merit allocations (at least based on their merit sent) are not active anymore, like @bonest261 and TMAN. As a matter of fact, there is even a
list of inactive merit sources.
It has long been apparent that quality posts in our local community receive less merit than quality posts in other local sections and the time has come to change that fact.
Exactly. We could definitely use some help, as last month was one of the worst we had so far, maybe even the worst since i am making
Brief monthly overview of the local boards activity. So yeah, @dkbit98 becoming a merit source would really help us to move from the bottom.
They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, so here is the last month's local board performances. Croatian board had measly 0.07 merit/post ratio during February 2021. Let's see if we can go lower than that :p.