They can send more merits per post, which is what theymos has been saying all along. Perhaps they can ask to reduce the allocation if that puts too much pressure on them.
There is no hard criteria for a "good" post. Whatever you don't mind seeing on this forum is worth a merit I think.
Convincing enough

The question that come to my mind is how much smerit a source could give in a row/repetitively without receiving (silly) remarks?