I'm very glad to learn that if we get sMerit points, then we can keep it without any problems. My some friends said that if I receive any sMerit by making high quality post or article, then I need to use it. Otherwise I will lost my all sMerits for ever. But after I see your reply regarding this, I understand properly.
While there is no option to lose unused smerits yet (it could be implemented if necessary) there is absolutely no reason to keep smerits as it is useless to the holder.
This doesn't mean you should be under pressure to give it out, until you find highly meriting posts.
Brothers, you know that sMerit is used for those who showcase many nice and helpful things before us. Those members of high rank who give sMerit if they do not see the quality of the newbie, then the next newbie will create spam for this forum by creating a small, unusual and helpless post, to earn sMerit. For this reason, higher rank members didn't like to give sMerits to newbie or lower rank members.
Higher ranked members (or any member at all with smerits) does not merit irrelevant posts. Majority of these comes from newbies as such it looks like they are the target, buy lots of high ranked members who don't give out quality interaction also don't get merited.
No one likes spam, regardless who is posting it.