If you're a merit source, I hope you know this is a merit-begging thread. Ignore it and cycle the merits elsewhere.
Oddly enough, that wasn't my first reaction to it--and you know I'm normally cynical to the point of despair.
Firstly, I discovered that some merits sources who also have good amounts of merits earned are denied of merits (maybe unintentionally) by other members of the forum.
How exactly did you discover that? Was something written about that phenomenon recently? I don't know about other merit sources, but I couldn't care less if members give me merits. I've actually written a number of times that people should pass on meriting any of my posts and instead give some merits to lower-ranked members who need them to rank up. They're useless to me aside from adding to my personal stash of sMerits, but that's unnecessary since I haven't tapped into those in many months.
OP, you sort of hinted that you weren't thanking
all the merit sources. Do you have any intel about merit sources not doing a good job?