To make it clear I guess he wanted to say if qwk misusing his sMerit.
It seems like you are quite thorough, Yes I don't mind if he sends 5 or 10 merit, but 49 merit, for posts it seems like 5 merit are enough.
You should complain to theymos instead of creating guessing-topics in Meta. Don't take my word for it:
If they complain about amounts, tell them to complain to me.
Andt here's this:
It's best if sources try to exhaust their source allocations, even if it means giving posts higher amounts than is typical. If you have 150 source merit and you only see 3 merit-worthy posts in a month, then I'd rather you over-give each of them 50 merit than let the merit expire. That way there are more people capable of sending merit, and the "merit economy" is less top-down.
It looks like qwk is
not very active and
empties his sMerit source once a month now. I'd say it's a case of "not great, not terrible".