Excellent, logical and positive post! Would have +1d but I ran out of spendable merit!
** If you need 2 merits to get one sMerit, will everyone eventually run out of sMerit?
There are some users who are designated as sources. So they keep getting sMerit to hand out. I guess you just need to figure out who those people are and get on their good side.
Or stop completely to care about that merit stuff.