I can see why some members just give out 20-50 merits in one hit. It's such a struggle to award merit in ones and twos.
On the other hand, there's really no harm just holding onto sMerits until some good posts come along. Recently I've seen several posts I wanted to merit, but didn't have any to give out. There's no way at this point I'd hand out 20 merits for a single post. Even if I was a merit source I wouldn't do that unless the post was
really good--but I haven't given a single post that many since the whole thing started.
I have a number of sections blocked, so for me the best posts continue to be made in Meta and Reputation. I've all but given up on trying to find anything worth meriting in Bitcoin Discussion, Economics, and the entire altcoin section. There's nothing but junk there, and it's unfortunate. You would think B.D. would be one of the best places to find good posts, but that's where the sig campaign spammers go to get lost in spam, and Altcoin Discussion is where all the bounty participants go to do likewise.
