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I am sorry if this was discussed before. I tried to search it on the forum, but didn't find any answers. It's been a month and two weeks since the merit system started working. I thought that each member according to the forum rank will receive smerit every month. I already gave all of my merits to various posts, but sometimes I see posts which I would like to merit, but I have to smerits to do that.
Is there some delay in receiving smerits? Or were the rules somehow changed?

7 threads down from this is a megathread.. 1st page of that thread has all the info you need..

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.0

I would expect a post like this from a noob - how can we give people grief over not reading if legendary members are just as bad as the noobs?

You will not generate sMerit from your account anymore unless you are a merit source, but you are still able to gain sMerit point if someone decides to merit your posts, for every 2 sMerit you attain from your posts, you will be able to gain 1 sMerit point which you can use to merit other users posts.

EDIT: I would advise you to lock this thread to prevent further discussion on this topic which have been discussed multiple times before, thank you.

Thanks a lot! When I read the post TMAN gave a link to when the system only got implemented, I guess I just didn't pay attention to further details with merits.
And I do remember that there was a thing about monthly merits! Like, for instance, that smerits which one didn't use in a month, would expire. That was the argument to encourage people to give their merits to others.
Did I really misunderstand the whole thing that much? Or was it actually changed to the way it is now? To support my point I'd like to add that at the same megathread there are discussions about monthly merits on page 41.