Have you sent merit to anyone here? If you have sent you will see this message before giving merit to someone, so there are no merits that are going to expire soon until Theymos announces it, Why put it in a profile, People can see how many merits you have to give and some will just question why you are hoarding their merits.

You have received a total of merit. This is what determines your forum rank. You typically cannot lose this merit. You have [the number of merits] sendable merit (sMerit) which you can send to other people. There is no point in hoarding sMerit; keeping it yourself does not benefit you, and we reserve the right to decay unused sMerit in the future.