I've suggested that smerit automatically be distributed based on activity.
The higher ranked, more active members would get more smerit than the lower ranks;
This would be in my opinion bullshit , and i promise that we will see some Accounts will be getting nuts about the activity.
It is also not a good idea to give lower ranks fewer merits than higher ranks.
It would indeed be a roundabout way of creating more spam, which is what the merit system was intended to combat in the first place. However, instead of spamming for activity, they would spam for sMerits which they would give to their alt accounts.
Besides, the huge gap between merit and activity in older accounts is what gives them away as being bought or hacked accounts. When I see an account with more than 6000 posts and less than 100 earned merits, that's a red flag... at best they are just a shitty poster but more likely they purchased the account.