You are a merit source, all I am also seeing is that you can distribute merit the way you want to people having quality posts on this forum, but I thought you have created a
merit giveaway thread before which is still active and not locked, I think that is enough to be able to distribute merit to people that wants to rank up. I remembered I applied there when I wanted to rank to full member but you were unable to rank me up, it was Heisenberg_Hunter that ranked me up. Also when I wanted to rank to senior member, I applied there but you were not able to rank me up there earlier but DdmrDdmr ranked me up there to be senior member. If people are still helping you in ranking up members that are just about to rank up on the thread, I think this new merit giveaway thread is not necessary.
There is a
thread created by DdmrDdmr where you can also check forum users that are about to rank up, I noticed this when a user sent me 4 merits because he saw me among people that wanted to rank up at the time, sent me message how he noticed my account and linked to this thread created by DdmrDdmr. I have even helped someone before by sending him 3 merits when I saw his account on the thread that he will soon rank up. nutildah also has created a
thread to be sending 50 max or lesser amount of merits to active members of this forum that apply there, though the thread was locked yesterday but which will still be opened as I think as he mentioned after 30 days, but I am not sure though if it will be opened, but I think that is what he meant by the statement 'just remind me when the 30 days are up'.
There is this LoyceV
thread also that users can post about their past works or other member's past work on this forum, if truly they have contributed on this forum, many were rank up. Many merit sources make use of the thread to rank people up and also to send merit to worthy posts, ou can also make use of it.
I am not saying this thread is not good enough, but you have one active
merit giveaway already where even some merit source are helping in sending merits to people the applied there that just want to rank up which makes this one not necessary.
Please do not see this wrongly, it is just my opinion, you can even edit the first merit giveaway thread that you created to your new rules than creating another one, or editing it to what you think will possibly help active forum members that have quality post history.