Help me understand something...
There is a new +Merit button besides the quote button.
Leading to a new page that reads:
You have received a total of 500 merit. This is what determines your forum rank. You typically cannot lose this merit. You have 88 sendable merit (sMerit) which you can send to other people. There is no point in hoarding sMerit; keeping it yourself does not benefit you, and we reserve the right to decay unused sMerit in the future.
You are a merit source. The next 100 merit you spend will come from your source rather than your sMerit balance. Merit spent from your source will come back in 30 days. Unused source merit is wasted. It is not allowed for merit sources to sell their merit.
1.
Lutpin has already shown us he is a sMerit source

So from the message he has posted he is getting 100 sMerit per month.
This is an unlimited source.
2. For the rest of us we will play with our sMerits point giving and receiving

but at some point since there is a halving involved those will just dry out.
3. Going a bit further in time and we have 35 forum members getting 100 sMerit each a month, a total of 3500.
Might be more or less, theymos knows that better.
That's enough for 14 Hero members to level up a month.....if they would get all the points
Hope I've made a mistake somewhere..