Did you notice something a little weird?

[Mpamaegbu]

Yes, what OP described is true. I noticed it too and it used to bother me in the past as I would wait and be eager to see any merit I sent reflect on the receiver's profile. However, at a point I stopped getting bothered. All I do now is check if the merit I send reflects on the post I put it on and that's it. I just move on to other things. I guess the delay has to do with the software used by this forum. It's nothing much of a worry, actually; let alone being tagged weird.

[oktana]

I haven’t noticed this before but this must be your cache data that is causing it. The cache as you may already know temporarily stores data so it can be easily fetched when required. So, this isn’t just about this forum. When you refresh a website, not everything you see is always refreshed, some are from previous information stored as cache. You can clear the cache for any website (if you need an assured data).

[SamReomo]

Yes, I have also noticed the delay when I sent some merits. After sending the merits if you visit the profile of the user then you can see the merits on that profile on time but it takes time to display the same merit on posts. I think it's not just OP's issue it's a delay on the server side of the forum.

I haven't just noticed it one time but many times and most of the times it takes a few minutes before we can see the merits that we have sent. It's an issue but not an intense one and I think a little bit work is needed to solve this issue of the forum. I hope that PowerGlove might come with a patch to fix the issue if it's a SMF based issue.

[KingsDen]

just visit his profile using ----> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=UID The merit is updated there instantly.
It is true that sometimes there is a delay, but it is within 5 minutes, and I do not think it is a big deal.

A few days ago I was getting an error trying to send multiple merits in less than 10 seconds (I had a ready list) so maybe there are some limitations.

Yea, Op also need to understand that this is network and some set of codes put together to perform a task by getting and fetching. Even in the real life, I can call your name "hugeblack" maybe more than once before you could respond. If that is true, why bother that merit didn't appear almost immediately. It would have been a problem if the merit doesn't appear at all and not because of a little load time delay. Maybe we should learn to overlook insignificant things, else I would complain why it took 3 secs to load this page while I'm on a super network provider.

When I was relatively new here, I had the habit of trying to suggest things to make the forum better or discover wrongly implemented stuffs. But it didn't take long till I fell inlove with this forum and discovered that everything here is good. I really wonder if there will ever be a new forum software.

[skarais]

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Maybe we should learn to overlook insignificant things, else I would complain why it took 3 secs to load this page while I'm on a super network provider.

That's great, I agree with you. Not all users are bothered by the delay in applying new merit to user profiles. The amount is updated automatically and may take a while in some cases. I don't think this is strange and I don't think it's a urgent issue. If you don't see the merit immediately after you submit, just continue your activity on the forum and come back after a few minutes rather than reloading page repeatedly.

OP, this is nothing unusual to worry about. Be patient for a moment and the merit will be updated automatically.