In the Portuguese local board we currently only have a single merit source.
Hopefully that source is active and generous, and it's good that the Portuguese section at least has one. I'm under the impression that's not the case for every local board, even some with large communities (though I could be wrong about that).
But once again--and I've written this so many times in merit source applications--it all comes down to what Theymos wants to do as far as adding new merit sources. I don't know when the last application was accepted or even much about the statistics involving the number of sources, etc., much less what Theymos's thoughts are. I keep wishing he'd drop a paragraph or two as sort of a "state of the merit system address" since he's the forum equivalent of the president of the US. No doubt he's got other things on his plate, but he created the system and it's a damn good one that keeps shitposters and account farmers in check. There are probably a lot of members, merit sources or not, who'd like to know what his plans/thoughts are.
Good luck OP and everyone else who's applied to be a merit source.
I believe that he will never comment on the merit system or anything of that kind... I think he prefers to keep the system flowing naturally as it currently is... if he were to go public, saying something, could directly influence the way merits circulate. . and perhaps he would like it to be organic, with people distributing merits in the most free way possible...
