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I've been both here and Reddit, and most of the time I see merits as like the Award system.
Most of the time I award Silver award at that site. Here in the forum when I choose a post to merit at, I see myself awarding that same award. I don't just give it away because I like to "exhaust" my sMerit as well.
That's the scenario i really wanted @Mistafreeze to comprehend, because the word exhausting merit really shows that his merit is really giving out or award without proper qualification, so i think such impression have to be corrected, so that the younger once that's new to the system will not adopt such a policy thinking it's worthy to emulate, so in summary we have to understand while merit is innate to the community and the methods we have to apply for awarding merit to avoid miss management of our Smerit.