such like them should be penalised one way or another to force them to at least share merits
Let's start with
this guy! Hoarding sMerits, how dares he!
as it's also important to the forum to make the good and deserving users feel appreciated and known.
If theymos thinks the average user doesn't earn enough Merit, he can easily double the entire supply. There's no point to blame individual users for it.