The weird thing is that V8 wasn't a merit source since long time ago. In fact I thought he were.
For some reason I thought he was as well, but then again I haven't even attempted to keep track of who the merit sources are, nor do I care as long as there are enough of them and as long as there's enough merit being circulated by them--and in a fair manner, too.
And I have to say, I don't have a clue as to whether the current stable of merit sources are sufficient; there haven't been a whole lot of threads in Meta bitching about merits or not being able to rank up, so that sort of makes me think that we're doing OK--but I'm far from certain about that. Something tells me that new members have kind of given up on trying to rank up their own accounts from scratch, and if rank is important to them (likely for campaigns), they're probably going to start their "career" on bitcointalk with a purchased account.
Anyhow, I fully support OP's application and hopefully he'll get tapped by Theymos to be a source.
