Quote from: Quickseller on May 07, 2021, 06:33:16 PM

Part of the reason merit distribution is declining is because merit is being received by people who are inactive. Otherwise, merit distribution is declining because people are not spending sMerit as they receive merit.

As merit sources don’t spend their source sMerit, less new merit enters into the ecosystem. If all active merit sources spend all their merit, and the inactive sources don’t spend any, it would appear that source merit is not being spent when looking at the data, but there would be missing context.

For this reason, the appointment of new sources seems to me pointless. The number of active posters is decreasing, and new merit sources will simply be handed out to the same users as current sources.

Quote from: Findingnemo on May 07, 2021, 08:07:47 PM

New merit sources should give preference to the good quality posts no matter who made it, if Theymos made any changes in the merit sources lists. Even if theymos is not interested in adding new sources, its better to reallocate some since some merit sources have very few smerits to spend from their source which was even less than 100 for some.

Then it makes sense to make a correction to those sources that have a very small bank. Those who have 400-500 merit in the bank monthly for distribution do not need this correction.

Quote from: ETFbitcoin on Today at 08:26:18 AM

Rare? I send 1 merit/post almost half of the time (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=359716), even though i focus on specific board/topic without being too generous.

And how many sources like you? Most sources send 2,3,4,7 merit per post. I used to send 1 merit per post myself. With my bank of 500 merit, I managed to evaluate more than 500 posts. Only my personal smerit were saved, so I requested a correction and an increase in the bank. When I see that a user evaluates 180-220 posts per month, having 400-500 merit in the bank, then it is clear that in this case, the correction and increase of the bank in the bank is just a whim of this merit source.