You mean you may not be capable not doing that? If your merit allocation will not make you be able to do that, just be doing it like you are doing it. But I check your merit history now and I see you giving people up to 10 merits at times while 5 merits but maybe not common. Although, if you think you want to increase it for people to be able to send to others in one way or the other, I do not think it is necessary.
All the 8-10 merits goes to this thread
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5522344.100 only few of my personal Smerits goes to the gambling and general board.
Only the person sending the merits can determine how to allocate the merits. With how subjective quality is, everyone here may have different views on what is high quality and what's normal. Trying to automate the system can lead to issues with users asking why their post, which they consider to be high quality, did not get theexpected amount of merits.
You just have to try working effectively with the amount of source merits available.
I got you, but I'm looking at it this way: there has been a recent decrease in what I consider to be a quality post worth merits on the board; so, instead of letting my source expire, why not empty it on the little quality I can find?- this way I'm also creating more Smerits on the board.