Every member don't need to have the same criteria for choosing a merit worthy post, that's why there are different merit sources and they all have their different criteria of meriting a post. Like you have your own criteria but you might not get to see every post that you would find worthy for its relevance and that's because the forum is wide. Regardless, you still give out houdreds of merit to worthy post every month which means you are still doing better. Some members have loads of Smerit for long time without giving out.

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What I was thinking of suggesting in that the merit system should have a specific period of time which it should allow Smerit to live before is dies off. According to the instructions that appears when giving out merit, I read that unspent Smerit will decompose if not spent but it doesn't decompose. Maybe if there's a specific time given for its decomposition, members could be motivated to distribute their Smerit thoughtfully to good posts.