If posts have not received enough merit for how good they are, wouldn't they have to be from "back in history" for that statement to make sense? Also, there is a great deal of merit to satoshi's posts whether his account is active or not.
Well sure, any post that is made right now is now in "history" a second after the post, I'm saying going back years in time to merit posts that have inactive accounts. I thought part of the idea here is sort of a trickle-down effect, when you are sending those sMerits to satoshi, he is getting 1/2 of those merits as sMerits, and will never send them to anyone and those sMerits are lost. I guess a "merit source" may not care as much because they can create the merit... my thoughts were to look at current/ongoing posts and selecting ones right now that may be worth merit.
If we go back into *all* history, my sMerits will be spent quickly and will probably be going to users that aren't as active anymore.