I'm curious to understand what made these people give him so many merits in a row
You shouldn't call Meriting posts "unusual" without checking the actual posts. As long as the posts deserve it, there's nothing wrong with it.
Btw, is indah rezqi a merit source too?
Unlikely. He sent
less than half the Merit he received.
I do the same sometimes.
For exemple when I see a person who is just a few merits away to rank up
When I see a person deseves more merits than what he receives.
I do it too, and I always remember this (taken slightly out of context here):
if they have decent posts, by all means, give them the 250 or 500 merit that they need to rank-up.
The Merit system was created to stop shitposters from ranking up. It shouldn't restrict normal users.
Theymos told us something like: if we have too much merits, throw them away.
Mean to sent merits again, or more users to merits. Something to end up with zero merits left
It's this post:
If they complain about amounts, tell them to complain to me. It's best if sources try to exhaust their source allocations, even if it means giving posts higher amounts than is typical. If you have 150 source merit and you only see 3 merit-worthy posts in a month, then I'd rather you over-give each of them 50 merit than let the merit expire. That way there are more people capable of sending merit, and the "merit economy" is less top-down.
@OP: as a Merit source, I guess I have a slightly different perspective on Merit than most users. Source sMerit feels like a "burden", and no matter how hard I try to get rid of them, they keep coming back! I'm now at 81 sMerit remaining, and I think that's less than the average I've had for the past 6 months. There's also a couple thousand of "my own" (earned) sMerit on top of that.