I am an smerit source (since I actually spend my merits which I wish people would do since that is what they are for) I don't know what these other smerit sources are talking about? Maybe they don't read enough posts but there tons of good ones. I think I get 1 merit each day and that is not nearlly enough. You should get like 10. I am out in a few days. I don't give one measly little merit I give 2-5 at a time. I also sometimes give noobs just 1 point to level them up or if I see they need 1 more to rankup. So I will look at their posts and choose a good one and merit it. People are selfish man seriously. Noone should have merits after the first week or two of the month. People who still have merits and don't spend are selfish and I hope noone gives them merits. Another thing I notice with ridiculous is people giving legendaries merits. They don't need them they max rank already.
Are you sure that you are smerit source, do you know what that means at all? You send 17 merits in last 120 days, and receive only 1....
You also think that merits are only given for good posts, and this is far away from the truth. Anyone can give merits to any post, merits are not moderated (except in rare cases), and sometimes posts with single word get merited. Everyone decides what to do with their merits, there is no rule about that.
If you want to see real merit sources in action, check this
list, and you may notice my name on it, so despite I am Legendary and not merit source, I merit 218 users with 366 merits so far.
You have a completely wrong idea about merits.
It seems he has no idea about his own
sendable merit (sMerit) and the merit sources Smerits.
Anyway for his/her clarity merit sources are someone chosen by admin to merit the good posts and they are capable of reproduce merit source for every 30 days.
But if you are seeing sendable merit (sMerit) means it was given to you when merit system was introduce based on your activity and you also will earn 1 sendable merit (sMerit) for every 2 merits you recieved.