Merit sources are the ones who distribute the number of merits to those quality and helpful contributions on every thread, and those who you think hoarders it's up to them if they want to give their sMerits we have different qualifications of giving merits sometimes can be subjective or base on their quality of the post. There are no benefits of holding too much sMerit at all.

That's why we have a thread related to this.

[v2][Self Moderated] In Merits, Count Down To Your Next Rank... by Fivestar4everMVP
[self-moderated] Report unmerited good posts to Merit Source by LoyceV
[Merit] Share your best posts/threads with Fillippone to be merit assessed by fillippone
[Merit] Share your best local board posts/topics by hugeblack