I think spending sMerit is very easy but receiving them are the hardest things (even harder and being accepted in a good signature campaign ) in this forum. This function should make it little bit harder not unreachable like current moment.
I do know much people who easily earn 100-200 sMerit in a day like (Lutpin, theymos,.... ) by just simply announcing something like Merit system or a signature campaign (they are campaign managers). But all of them are long-standing members and being famous in this. So nameless members like us won't get sMerit that way for sure.