One user in the turkish local board received enough merits to rank up to a Hero Member: Matthias9515. Currently he has 476 activity and probably he will rank up next week.
Also, finaleshot2016 and abhiseshakana have become a Senior Members.
vphasitha01, kirreev070, Zapo, morvillz7z are the new Full Members.
Congratulations to all the ranked up members!
I think you've missed out a new Hero this week: krogothmanhattan (he had the merits a long time ago, but was lacking activity until last thursday).
krogothmanhattan was in the list of the users who received enough merits to rank up to a Hero Member, but I forgot to mention that he did not have sufficient activity yet.
By the way, next week you will reach 240 activity and become a Senior Member, so I congratulate you in advance.
I don't think that being a merit source helps one to gain merits. In fact, I think the reverse is true. People tend to assume that merit sources have so many merits that they don't need any more. I base this opinion on a couple of posts that I have seen stating this, and saying that awarding sMeits to a source is a waste of merits. Many members still don't realise that source meits are not the same as spendable merits, although both are effectively the same once they have been awarded.
Perhaps some low ranked members think that giving merits to a Legendary is a waste of merits, because he/she already has a maximal ranked account on the forum. But I am sure that every Legendary deserves to receive merits for a useful post.
I guess that being a merit source can help to gain merits, if some merited members will give them merits back voluntarily. In any case, this merit source should make useful posts worthy of giving merits.
