I read
this sentence "There is no point in hoarding sMerit; keeping it yourself does not benefit you, and we reserve the right to decay unused sMerit in the
future."
It is just a like a reminder now that the merits are meant to be shared and not hoarded nothing more. The warning of it getting decayed hasn’t been implemented just yet because we have seen many members who have been inactive for very long time come on to the forum to share merits which signifies it doesn’t decays.
The only person that can’t spend their merits are banned accounts. This was a new rule after the merit system got introduced and the banned accounts that got airdropped merits then abused their smerits by trading them.
So if this rule can be implemented then we might also see maybe smerits could get decayed in future, who knows? Rules are changing everyday just like DT are been updated almost every month. So it could still happen in the future but for now Nothing of such.
If I read correctly, I came across a post regarding merit decay, which was only to imply that merit was airdropped to members when the new merit system was introduced. A few members were given a few smerit, which I don't remember the ratio to which it was given, and this smerit was the one that was advised not to be held as if it were a coin one was saving to build a house, as they are likely to decay in the future, but I doubt any of that has ever happened before.
Not that this members are give smerits, but rather you get half smerits of the total number of merits you have, so those that were airdropped merits didn’t need to be airdropped smerits again but they got the half of the merits as smerits. People that get airdropped smerits every month are merit sources. Which they are just
109 of them and just 33940 smerits shared in different proportion to them