Add to that: most comments will not be seen by a merit faucet. Even if there's a particularly good post, most people will just move on and not even think of assigning merit points.
Not true. Merit sources are viewing all comments on all sections of the forum (I hope!).
If you see a particular comment you feel deserves merit, feel free to leave some.
Ran out of sMerit? You need to be more particular with whom you give merits to.
Or make good quality posts to gain more sMerit.
Not true. 57 merit sources could never read all the posts. I'm one of the 57 merit sources (the only lowlife merit source) I was given 5 sMerits by theymos.
With 5 sMerits I was supposed to give a lot of merits to good posts to get more in the future.
I have already spent my 5 source merits, I don't need to read more comments, if theymos gives me more sMerits, I would need to post a topic and ask anybody with a minimum of 250 activity and less than 250 merits to post there and request for review, based on the amount of sMerits that I have, I would read their posts and send them merits.
I don't want to send merits to random posts, they could have been copy-pasted. but if a member with more than 300 posts and less than 250 merits comes to me for merits, chances of that member to have copy-pasted 300 posts without getting caught are slim as a slim dead trout.
With 5 sMerits every 30 days, I could rank up a jr member into a full member after a year (lowlife, unworthy beggar, if you had to put a price on merits, I don't think 5 of them could have any value more than $1-$2).
Giving thousands of sMerits to somebody who is only giving them to Bitcoiners means that you don't want anybody from alt coin community to rank up, why do you have alt coin forum then? I posted 10 links to 10 posts of mostly Bitcash shills and Bitcoin core
shills devs, if you don't want any of the Bitcash shills to rank up, they don't need to be a high rank member to shill for Bitcash.
People need to rank up because they want to join signature campaigns and earn money, if you want to earn money, spend 4-6 months as a full member, then ask for merits to rank up into a senior member.