Today I just visited meta board and saw
this topic and some old question in my mind araise once again that-
We know that forum has total 109 merit sources and as this
info total Smerit generation of up to 32990 in a month.
Merit courses are tasked with distributing some merit to quality posts on the forums every month, that can motivated the quality poster and all merit sources fulfill their responsibilities.
So questions is-
-Are all merit sources have same smerit generation?
Theymos gives Smerit to all Merit Sources accounts at a certain time every month. again to distribute merit for that month. We know that for every 2 merits received, 1 Smerit is auto generated, but distributed Smerits to merit sources are by Theymos.
-Another question is once a merit source can be a lifetime merit source? Or is it also pick and drop system like DT¹
member election?
Once someone is a merit source, he is not a source for lifetime. Merit source list is updated every month. If a merit source is inactive in the forum for a long time or does not distribute the Smerit given to him, then he is removed from the list of merit sources.