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.
There is nothing stopping merit sources to send 50 merits even now, but they should not do it only to some approved members.
I don't want to see rules around merits to be very strict, except in case when there is some merit abuse or selling.
I remember few years ago members and merit source asked for merits all the time, but that is not the case these days, so there is obviously not such a high demand.