All members who have previous ranks and are not merit sources got a pre-determined number of Merits and sMerits. Of which the Merit amount was given on the basis of the rank they already had. Please read the topics more carefully before commenting on such - theymos clearly mentioned how much each rank got when the merits system started.
Hmm, I was wrong. I mean sMerits was given free. So it needs time, because:
In total 85524 sMerits have been sent.
This number is much larger than 11975 sMerits, which are currently created by 57 merit sources per month.
The sMerits created by 57 merit sources are not sufficient and most of used sMerits were initially assigned ones.
Topic starter asked why so easy to get enough merits for Member, I answered. What the problem?
ps English isn't my native language. And I just want to improve it. That's why I post in English threads. I'm not interested in merits here :/