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I make it 10 airdropped sMerits really, but the Merit Dashboard makes it 14 since there is a lapse between the generation of the merit.txt file, and the individual scraping of all merited profiles.
Basically, sMerits received on Friday mornings can cause that effect, which would be corrected in the subsequent week (providing you don’t get merited again between merit file generation and profile scraping). The 4 sMerits received on Friday morning (07:29:12 AM my time) cause the temporary difference (you received 2 more sMerits that morning, at 09:21:04 AM (my time), but the scraper had already created a snapshot of your profile).