RE: The whole merit source thing

First week merit rewards were paid out of my sMerits, not my source merits. I've been somewhat busy recently, so last week's came out of my source. My point is that this is not the only place I'm distributing merits. If you check the Most Generous Merit Sender stats, I am rank 11, which is above the majority of the sources. I'm also not that large of a source; I'm below average. If I had no starting/earned sMerits, I would not have been able to fulfill my end of the bargain for the first week.

Go complain that other merit sources aren't doing their job first, as there are quite a few people on the most merit sent list that are under the average monthly generation. They've burned their source merits, which I would say is much worse than meriting people for good posts. (I assume that was an attack at me, given that I'm the source sponsoring the first place prize for this challenge)

I've checked the posts of those who I've merited through this as well, and I agree that they are good posts, I would not be doing this otherwise. I don't think it would be wise or easy for Joe to farm his own accounts (assuming he has them) without posting "nullius style" posts, and if you were going to do that, you'd get merits anyway. The winners for the past 2 weeks deserve merits in my opinion. My "sponsorship", if you can even call it that is not guaranteed, I could technically pull out of it at any second. If only spammers were left, I'd definitely pull out.