<…> As far as I understand, if a merit source is inactive on the forum for a long time, his sMerit bank does not replenish, gradually decreases and probably becomes empty, so he needs to boost it to the maximum allowed value by sending merits again.
I’ve never yet been in that situation, but judging by the way it works, it should replenish to the Source’s max allowance and stay put at that value (providing he does not award any sMerits); that is, until there is a Merit Source quota reassignment, moment at which it may be truncated to a lower value of even cease to exist altogether.<...>My calculations might be off, but I believe this is the post that received the 1,000,000th merit. Congrats to Phil_S <...>
I make it the same:
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What I make it to be the 1 millionth sent sMerit, was awarded in the following TX:
Date: 2021-10-05 11:35:10.000 (UTC)
Sender: @El duderino_
Receiver: @Phil_S
Post: W.O. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.msg58104338#msg58104338)
Content:
oh man now where are the conspiracy nuts gonna get their misinformation to circle jerk each other now?
MSNBC still on.
The TX accounts for sMerits 999.999, 1.000.000, 1.000.001 and 1.000.002, since it was a 4 sMerit TX.
Note1: The above is providing my cumulative DB is correct and hasn’t skipped any TXs. I could be wrong.
Note2: Technically, 1M was reached "before", but there are a few historical deleted TXs and 17 countered (negative) TXs to undo some past merit abuse.
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What I make it to be the 1 millionth sent sMerit, was awarded in the following TX:
Date: 2021-10-05 11:35:10.000 (UTC)
Sender: @El duderino_
Receiver: @Phil_S
Post: W.O. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.msg58104338#msg58104338)
Content:
Facebook / Instagram are down. 
oh man now where are the conspiracy nuts gonna get their misinformation to circle jerk each other now?
MSNBC still on.
The TX accounts for sMerits 999.999, 1.000.000, 1.000.001 and 1.000.002, since it was a 4 sMerit TX.
Note1: The above is providing my cumulative DB is correct and hasn’t skipped any TXs. I could be wrong.
Note2: Technically, 1M was reached "before", but there are a few historical deleted TXs and 17 countered (negative) TXs to undo some past merit abuse.
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