I think a merit source should uphold a higher standard regardless of which smerits they use. As opposed to non-source merit senders who can do almost whatever they please with their earned smerits.
Imho, even us non merit sources should have some standard because if I tend to merit certain type of shitposts, that can only encourage more members to do more of those as that's what those lemmings tend to do.
I find it interesting that 24 members voted "Yes" (31 voted "No", myself included) while (afaik) no one said so in this thread.
You haven't yet noticed the group of members/alts who consistently jerk each other no matter the validity of their opinions?