I saw it like two years ago that something shady happened with merit distributions.

If you look at general distribution, that can be nearly the same, no big changes but the general distribution does not mean Sendable Merits are circulating, distributing fairly in the forum.

If it is a loop between local users for sMerit distribution, generally if you don't belong to actively internal merit circle, you will feel like sMerit nowadays (recent months like about last 2 years) will be more scarce because you actually received less than previous years.

So what are loops and merit holes?

I know how you feel but please take it easy