Same here, guess I'll start sending 3 - 5 merits at once from now on.
I might do the same thing, or I might just start looking for more posts to merit, though I don't plan on lowering my standards any. I did just check my sMerits and I'm glad to see I just got around 200 more. Thanks, Theymos. There are certainly a lot of shitposters who don't deserve to rank up, but there are a lot of members who do deserve it, and their posts go under-merited for whatever reason. Sometimes even really good ones don't earn any merits, and that's a needless impediment for the people making good posts.
Edit: there are now 98 merit sources and it looks like the total source merit decreased so some sources were removed.
Huh. I hadn't looked at that number in a while. Weren't there something like 120 merit sources at one point?