As a fellow African, I do approve of this message / merit application.
Thank sir you..
I know from now Theymos will surprise us with something very special, which we can't wait to see that day come true!
Growth of Nigerian board is a proof that theymos did a right thing by giving you your own local board and getting few more merit sources can only help in that as I think that you have a potential to surpass Turkish board and who knows, maybe even come close to Russian.
Who knows if this is the reason why we are no long going further because other local posters might feels discouraged on the local board, maybe putting their efforts on the general boards.. I know certainly we must be recorded amongst the top if this was given to us by Theymos.
Although I would like to see more merit sources but what I have noticed is that Nigerians are ranking up, it is true that it is difficult for those who only post in the local board but it is possible.
I have message Theymos severally and when he was giving us the local board I talked with him about the merit condition because that has been my allocation before the local board was created but his reply was that the forum isn't looking to add more merit to circulation and that's just frustrating to the local board but what can we do, most times I even keep my smerits earned from merit received for the baord just to keep the energy high on the board.
Sincerely speaking I must commend you for your efforts towards the local board, if not you and Igebotz I wouldn't had known how the local board could have been by now, considering the facts that most of the users aren't gaining enough merits from the local but yet you do keeps your smerits to spread across the local board. Well let have to be thankful at least for given you an allocation of +100 merits but indepthly this is not encouraging at some point if not that I am committed to the local board I wouldn't had have that momentum and energy to keep the fire burning, but what do I do; I so much love my people in way that what affects the "eyes surely affects the nose" that is to say, this is a race for all and not one and I know too well that something positives is on it's way coming.
Instead of getting discouraged we can think of a compromise, I can give Nigerians LB about 150-200 merits per month, which means about 100 extra sMerit, just make a weekly list, PM me with it or through that thread and I'll look into it.
After about 3 to 6 months, if there is an improvement in the quality of the posts and the post/merit ratio, then you will have enough reason to claim a new source source with +200 Merit per month.
I think you are a sent to us, I don't really know how to thank you all but the love you have in Nigeria will definitely land you a beautiful woman in my Nigeria, that is if you aren't yet married, I must say if not that I have been taken I don't mind giving you the love for your perfect efforts towards our board.
Well, sorry to put much interest but I have subsequently interacted with few users across the forum and their response weren't encouraging; meaning they felt dishearten for no progress towards their ranking..
But I do uses myself to encourage and gives them some instances on how I do scale through the forum to get to this point which at some point I never had this mindsets of getting to this level but I was also geared up by some members over here, this made me scale through. Although I can't say I am comfortable with my current position but I have to be thankful at least to had leave the full member rank to Sr. Member which I believe in few months will be looking at Hero.
Actually what keeps me going was the knowledge I do derived here on a regular basis, so why should I be discourage? I won't but keep going till Theymos give's us what we wanted.
By the way, I really wants to say thank you for the little lift you gave to me by your smerits.. love you for that. I never have the privilege to send a personal messages for a review because I wouldn't like to experience the bad side of any one here but was moved to post few of my link to your thread and I was honored within 24 hrs.