I agree with you, but there are many posts out there that are not qualified but get a lot of awards
Not that many really
Without going into the posts content to see whether or not it got the merit it deserved (which is subjective, except for obvious cases of abuse), if we focus on merit awarded between the 1st of June 2018 and the 6th of July 2018 (most recent transactions), weve got:
sMerit awarded in a Transaction:
sMerit nTxs %
1 6779 66,92%
2 1590 15,70%
3 437 4,31%
4 168 1,66%
5 681 6,72%
6..10 302 2,98%
11..20 95 0,94%
21..30 37 0,37%
31..40 13 0,13%
41..50 28 0,28%
That goes to say that there are not that many sMerit Transactions of a high value, but rather that when we encounter them, they standout and stick to our mind. A more detailed view, covering all historical transactions, can be seen in the
Analysis- sMerits per transaction and sMerit transactions per post-Are they low?