I must be living in fantasyland.
I thought that most of the smerits were distributed on the WO thread. One thread hogging all (most) of the smerit distribution....
It was about all locales, not about the entire forum. In the Russian locale (among all locales) the most merite has always been distributed. As for the WO thread... this thread has long existed according to its own customs, and there the merit distribution has long since moved away from how theymos imagined it. There, a post in which there is not a word about cryptocurrency, but just a few pictures from life, can collect several hundred merits.