Quote from: pawanjain on June 03, 2024, 04:46:27 PM

Are you tracking people whether they are hoarding their merits or not ?
Unless you are using bpip tool to monitor different users on the forum it will be really difficult to tell if the people are hoarding their merits or not.

You remember the names eventually. Let's say I wanted to merit you but I never checked your profile. I would visit it and click on your merit stats. It takes me two seconds to see if you are sending merits. I would expect anyone who receives merits to spend them as well. I don't care how, in which quantities, or to which users. I just like to see them being circled.

Quote from: GeorgeJohn on June 03, 2024, 06:09:55 PM

But I think as a merit sources, your Smerit have expiration if fail to exhaust it before the end of the month?

Don't confuse source merits with sMerits. They are different. sMerits (the spendable merits) are the ones you can give to other people. Two received merits create one sMerit.

Source merits expire if not used. If you are a merit source, you first have to use your source merits before you can tap into your sMerit pool. That's why LoyceV says he is an sMerit hoarder. Because he is a merit source with a big stash of source merits, he rarely gets a chance to send his sMerits.

Let's say he now has 200 source merits next to his name. He needs to empty that to 0 before it's time to send his sMerits. Since it's difficult because of a lack of quality and meritworthy posts, his sMerit count keeps increasing and is not being emptied.