It's best if sources try to exhaust their source allocations, even if it means giving posts higher amounts than is typical. If you have 150 source merit and you only see 3 merit-worthy posts in a month, then I'd rather you over-give each of them 50 merit than let the merit expire.
I can't say I completely agree with theymos here, but I get the reasoning behind it. If all Merit sources would do this, the amount of Merit created each month would be equivalent to the total of all Merit sources.
Merit is centralized and political - if Theymos likes you; it's hard to suggest otherwise.Well I would have to believe what you said because if not so there wouldn't had been any day that people submit application and he don't even respond or give a word to those who has already submitted application, and again while does some people have a higher merits allocations than others. All this made me have this rethink that Merit is political, in fact everything is politics and one must be strong on forum politics to be able to survive in all aspects and that is what they
called reputation.
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.
This is a nice suggestion and since there no move to add more sources then I am fully in support of this steps. This will help reduces the task on merits sources if their messengers are working for them. I mean, if such amount are being credited to the people on the list then it would also relief those merits source from much task of reading and giving out merits.