Only devs and admins should have smerit and they should reward it to the people making appropriate posts.
What made you think that a few admins is better than 83 merit sources as right now that is giving at max of 19,100 sMerits per 30 days? If you are obviously thinking we have more merit sources than the admins and mods combined. So I know 19,100 at first do not look a lot but everytime a member sends 1 sMerit half of that will be received by you as a sendable sMerit. So do not mind that your posts are not receiving any merits instead concentrate more on improving your post by actually reading other posts in that thread and contributing something new.