But because no one knows everything, it is sometimes necessary to ask questions to gain more clarity. According to my understanding, the merit can be offered to you by anyone who has Smerits.
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?
The answer to your question is very simple, the numerous merit source the forum has are the reason why the merit distribution remains functional till date, due to the fact that each of these "merit source" all have a certain amount of merit he/she is been allocated monthly, whereby he/she distributes it to post/thread considered to be worthy of being merited, due to either how it was able to offer solutions to a problem asked or contribute meaningfully to forum members.