Smerits are obtained when a user merits you and you receive half of that merit as Smerit, which you can also send out. If that is how merit and Smerit function, what happens when everyone in the forum distributes all of their Smerits? Because, as a result of this process, the Smerits will one day be exhausted by everyone. But the merit distribution system continues to function; how is this possible?
S'merit can't practically get exhausted in the forum this is because when Mr X sends Mr Z any amount of merits it's creates a halve of the total number of merits sent and this circulation it's more like a rebirth of other merits between members. To make it more realistic we have merits source's delegated with merits monthly to distribute to members with quality posts which these members in turn merit other members with quality posts in their discretion.
What could make it seem like merits are exhausted in the forum is when either merit sources or members with merits do not distribute merits to other users but that scenario is not possible