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?
Don't worry about that and merits will not get exhausted since every 2 merits you receive you get 1 where you can send it to any user you want and that's how the cycle works so even if you are not a merit source you can still send merit to anyone if you continue to receive more merits coming from multiple forum users.
So became a best poster so that you can contribute not only with good post but also with the merit since sharing it to other people can continue the whole cycle.