Perhaps an alternative solution, should theymos choose to do nothing, is for a merit source (or merit sources) to create "mini-merit sources", where said merit sources monthly sends 50 merits to everybody on
this list, who will then have 25 smerits each to merit other users.
It is worth noting that 25 smerits is much less than the 100 smerits minimum that theymos assigns merit sources, so I don't think one merit source can do this by himself.
those peeps on the list will get mad amounts of merit. like what,
possibly a few hundred
merits a month
(or 50 as you suggest) just for being on that list? and
theythses merits will be added to their "standard" merit count. and they will be permanent.
with
realactual merit
sourcesources, the smerits dont get added to our "real" merit count and unused ones decay after 30 days.