I don't know, I repeat, I'm speaking from the point of view of a merits source with 45 monthly smerits
doing the rotation every 3 months for this misery makes no sense
It makes sense to split up those who have too many and perhaps can't give them all and do, I don't know, instead of one merit source of 1000, two of 500
It seems to me the most logical choice
From your perspective it will be a good thing to do but Loycev explained it better, the merits are not scarce so no point in reducing one to increase another unless the admin want to keep the merit distribution to a certain number for some reason. But 45? That's too low, theymos should review them once in a while and whoever exhausts their merits should get a 10% increase after a cycle, which can be 3 months or 6 months, and it can keep on going.
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For the sake this maybe mentally stressful in keeping all posts on tracks, it may not be easy for such users to keep posting on the regular
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As I said, being active doesn't necessarily mean posting more, it is about how much time they spend on reading others' post and able to make a judgment whether it will be helpful for others too and encourage such posts with merits. Posting frequency is their preference and no one should force change their posting habit just because they are in signature campaign.