Merit is slowly dying, this is only the second week of the month, this means the Merit sources already have the charge from last month sMerit sent.
That's not how it works. Merit sources get refreshed 30 days after they spend a source merit.
Yes I know it. This is what I mean, if you look the graph:
04/03/2018 10/03/2018 8468 1st week of March
11/03/2018 17/03/2018 7278 2nd week of March
18/03/2018 24/03/2018 7378 3rd week of March
25/03/2018 31/03/2018 5883 4th week of March
01/04/2018 07/04/2018 7525 1st week of April
08/04/2018 14/04/2018 5778 2nd week of April
As we can see (3 days delay) the merit is lower every weeks on this month, and if this is the trend, next month will be worse.
I think to contrast this we need to increase the merit sources or to increase the merit for the current sources.
I agree on the quality of the forum, but I think we need a little adjusment on overall merit to counteract this process or in few months we can have only 2k merit/week (my personal idea, form less activity from sources, natual decreasing of merit from users even ban for accounts)