The number of merits sent per month has declined to 15k, while merit sources alone should be sending out 22k.
I would like to see how many Source Merits are sent each month. @theymos: can you show data on that?
The remainder is either airdropped, or created by "trickle-down" Merit distribution.
Plus I wouldn't mind reading some comments from other merit sources about how their monthly allocation is going. I think Jet Cash said in a thread a few days ago that he had something like 100 sMerits or more, and I've never had anywhere near that amount.
I've had "my own" sMerit stach >300 for months. Since a few months, I've been trying to keep my Source supply as close to 0 as possible, and started using my own stash.
Then this happened:
In the past week, I merited 50 different posts on 1 day, and finally made a dent in "my own" sMerit stash. This morning I woke up to see my Source Merit trippled doubled. I can only assume theymos keeps taps, this increase came after being a source for 8 months.
My initial plan was to ask for a source increase once I'm out completely, but it didn't come to that.
Now I'm going to keep an eye on LoyceV's thread and see if there are any newbies with good posts
My thread has no shortage of people wanting to Merit posts, but doesn't have a single link to a good post. I guess it once again shows that merit isn't scarce. Good posts are.