If a user doesn't send sMerit, that doesn't stop me from Meriting them when it's deserved. Hoarding still beats sending it to the wrong posts.
Imo, hoarding merits is not a good practice and will not promote the healthiness of the forum. Merit hoarding defeats two laws;
1. The natural law of giving: This law believes that "a giver never lacks", he that gives should recieve, vice versa.
2. The law of saturation: If a user keeps receiving merits without giving out, there should be a limit to which he/she will no longer recieve merits unless he begins to give out. If this law is applied by Theymos, the talk of merit hoarding will be a past.
I found a merit-worthy post a few hours ago. I did my usual check to see if that member gives out merits, and I discovered that he has received over 80 merits, but he hasn't sent a single one! I didn't give him anything after that.
You know humans are good at predicting the unpredictable. Maybe the hoarder might be thinking that in the future, the merits might not be what it is today, maybe it can turn to something like a token that will have monetary value, hence the essence of hoarding
However, the practice of merit hoarding is a form of merit abuse which can result to misuse of merit in the future (merit selling, meriting alts).
So, it should be frowned at especially when a non merit source does it.