Took your advice and only gave him 13 even though I could have done 50.
You could gave him 50 merits that wouldn't be wrong either. But, the point is, your sending of merits shouldn't impact your and his relationship in anyway. Like if you send him 50 merits at a time, and to be honest he deserves those merits, then you may still not feel any hesitation when you may get to work with him in future.
We all are like a family on this forum, and if someone who appreciates a family member's posts or in simple words contribution then he/she can send merits to that member for his/her contribution. After sometime when the member who sent merits to a member gets accepted in a campaign that's managed by the same member then there's nothing wrong in that either.
Yeah I could continue to support him with merits. I likely will do that.
A lot of the disagreement by me with this thread is my Accounting and IRS training. Which define a merit source act as a signature manager as a conflict of interest.
Much like the bill payer in a business should not be the bill collector. Separation of duties is the concept.
So far I gave him 63 merits .