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.
This fact suggests that we need more merit sources and/or more sMerits per source.
Although I agree that we need more Merit sources, it can't necessarily be concluded from this. Many users
* distributed Merits to their alt-accounts, and this should end when their initial free Merits dry up.
* From the
Top-merited users, recent merit, many users have red trust for Merit trading (from the first 10: 452: pitipawn, 283: RichDaniel, 251: saulzaents and 151: niknik1966), and many are suspected to have traded Merit (such as
Chachacoin17).
It's even more suspicious if they stop getting new Merit right after they've reached the rank requirement.