Theymos prefers Merit sources to empty their source. He said (and I'm not going to find back the quote): if you find only a few posts worth meriting in a month, give them everything so they can redistribute sMerit again. I personally wouldn't do that, as dumping 50 Merit on a Newbie's post doesn't seem right to me.
Well I don't think there are many posts that ever should have received 50. I do remember reading theymos's view that he would like to see the allocations spent. I disagree with emptying the sac for the sake of emptying it. If this is done it would always seem that we need more merit, as opposed to finding a happy balance.
A better forum is my incentive

Great attitude, as always... a little to perfect, AI activated.