Are merit source assigned to a particular board.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

And why bitcoin discussion and economic boards lack enough merit distribution, is because merit sources consider those sections are full of spam so finding good ones might be rare and even most of them ignore those board.

I can only speak for myself here, but yeah what you wrote sounds about right.  Bitcoin Discussion in particular is full of threads that are either pointless or have run as long as 100 pages or more or are just filled with absolute nonsense posts.  So what happens when an entire section turned out to be that way?  Well, I have it on ignore and rarely visit it at all, much less hand out merits there. 

Economics is hit or miss.  Sometimes there are good topics and some decent posts within them, but that section has gone downhill since I first registered 11+ years ago.  I do give out merits there still, but it's usually to higher-ranked members and not to lower-ranked ones who need them to rank up and who I'd rather give them to. 

Eh.  It's been that way for years now.

[LoyceV]

boards like Economics, trading and political & society boards are actually lacking merit distribution meanwhile there are good threads created by members.

Feel free to report those unmerited good posts in Report unmerited good posts to Merit Source. In the 7.5 years since I created that topic, I think it has proven there aren't many good posts that go unmerited.

So does the forum management assign merit source to a particular board or not?

Moderators are linked to boards, Merit is not.

He could have included Speculation as well, which is similar to trading discussion.

The Speculation board has the Wall Observer, that makes it one of the most Merited boards on the forum.

[ABCbits]

Merit sources are not limited to a particular board, but it is necessary that most of their allocations goes into the board which they were assigned for as merit source, what's more important is that merits are spread across quality posts.

I don't remember any case merit source got punished for mainly sending merit outside board they mentioned on their application. So IMO word "expected" is more appropiate than "necessary".

And why bitcoin discussion and economic boards lack enough merit distribution, is because merit sources consider those sections are full of spam so finding good ones might be rare and even most of them ignore those board.

Not only that, Bitcoin Discussion also contain some thread that is probably more suitable on other board. Few example from page 1,
bitcoin vs real estate probably better on Economics
They might begin bitcoin mining death spiral fud again after this news probably better on Mining
Can peace news really make Bitcoin bounce back? probably better on Speculation

User such as CTO114 frequently create generic thread, mostly on this board. His profile page shows he create 161 thread and reply, but if you click "Show the last topics started by this person.", you would find out he create 134 thread. I don't bother report any of those, so i expect most user have same attitude.

[LoyceV]

User such as CTO114 frequently create generic thread, mostly on this board. His profile page shows he create 161 thread and reply, but if you click "Show the last topics started by this person.", you would find out he create 134 thread. I don't bother report any of those, so i expect most user have same attitude.

Users like this are the reason I don't visit the Bitcoin Discussion and Economics boards. He's already on my Ignore list, and should have been banned a long time ago. His posts are what I like to call "generic shitposts", and I can't even get myself to read it, but his topics easily get several pages of replies because many others want to reach their signature quota.

I think the Bitcoin Discussion board should be one of the best boards on this forum, but at least 90% of all topics there shouldn't even exist.

Some guidelines:
3. No pointless or uninteresting threads.

Lol.