Does sMerit actually Decay?

[Decimetre]

Each time I see this pop up I begin to wonder how it works and what it means by sMerit decay.  How long can the sMerit last without getting decayed or is it only a write up? Has anybody's own decayed and how long did it take to happen. I'm curious and really want to understand what it means by sMerit decay and it's possibility and timeframe.

[SquirrelJulietGarden]

Each time I see this pop up I begin to wonder how it works and what it means by sMerit decay.  How long can the sMerit last without getting decayed or is it only a write up? Has anybody's own decayed and how long did it take to happen. I'm curious and really want to understand what it means by sMerit decay and it's possibility and timeframe.

For your question, the information at the account merit page is clear enough.

If you read this Merit & new rank requirements that is the announcement of merit system launch can help you finding the answer about another thing, demerit.

There is currently no such thing as a "demerit". I'm hoping that the positive merits alone will be fine. I could add demerits pretty easily later on if necessary, though.

There are no smerit decay and demerit so far.

[PX-Z]

"we reserved the right" is the important note in the merit page that can answer your question. Which means theres no exact time to do that, but it is very possible that it can be "decay" unused smeris, term used by admin.

[Cookdata]

"We reserve the right" means the forum Administrator can "do" and "undo" action to your smerit without your consent or knowledge if there is a reason to do it.

For now, there has never been any reports of decayed smerit or unused smerit taken away from any account.

[Upgrade00]

The key pharse isn't that the forum 'reserves the right', but that it can do that in the future. Thebfirs part just means that they can do that anytime they want, same way casinos reserve the right to ask for private documents and could be doing it to some other people already (this may have been the confusion).
Adding; 'in the future' means at the time of you reading that, the right has not been used yet. If there are any changes it will be updated.

[DYING_S0UL]

Each time I see this pop up I begin to wonder how it works and what it means by sMerit decay.  How long can the sMerit last without getting decayed or is it only a write up? Has anybody's own decayed and how long did it take to happen. I'm curious and really want to understand what it means by sMerit decay and it's possibility and timeframe.

As far as I know, NO, it doesn't decay (at least not to this date). Merit or sMerit isn't some radioactive isotope that decays over time. 

But nobody can say for sure what will happen in the future. As others have already mentioned, admin can basically change the current policy at any given time, and make them decay over time.

There is an exception when it comes to merit sources. Theymos allocates each merit sources certain amount of sMerits every momth, for them to distribute throughout the month. Now if I understand correctly, if left unused, the sMerits will get a reset after the month is over. But we aren't talking about that here.

Certain users are designated as "merit sources". They can create new merit out of nothing, up to a limited number per month (which differs per source). I will not be posting a definitive list of merit sources (so that people don't bug them too much), though you'll soon figure out who they are if you pay attention.

There is currently no such thing as a "demerit". I'm hoping that the positive merits alone will be fine. I could add demerits pretty easily later on if necessary, though.

[Cleanshit]

Well from my own end I was about asking another different questions, well am opened to learning I feel there was a time I noticed i had unexpected 5smeirt in my profile just like that I was confused how did it happen?

Please has anyone experience such before?

[bitmover]

Well from my own end I was about asking another different questions, well am opened to learning I feel there was a time I noticed i had unexpected 5smeirt in my profile just like that I was confused how did it happen?

Please has anyone experience such before?

There is nothing unexpected.

According to bip , you earned 90 merits and spent 39. You still have 6 smerits.
https://bpip.org/Profile?id=3588053

[(BTC)]

As far as I know, NO, it doesn't decay (at least not to this date). Merit or sMerit isn't some radioactive isotope that decays over time. 

But nobody can say for sure what will happen in the future.

When you said that, I got curious and researched other stuff that "does not decay" or "does not have a half-life". Interesting rabbit hole to go down. Aparently, it is one of the very few physical things in this universe/our reality that do not decay that we know of:

-photons
-electrons
-maybe neutrinos
-protons maybe can decay but experiments say it has ~10^34 years lifetime
-sMerit? 

[Pmalek]

@Decimetre
Don't worry about your sMerits decaying. Just use them normally. Merit posts you believe deserve them. I assume you like when your contributions to the forum are appreciated and someone merits you. Do the same to others, so they can feel appreciated too.

There is an exception when it comes to merit sources. Theymos allocates each merit sources certain amount of sMerits every momth, for them to distribute throughout the month. Now if I understand correctly, if left unused, the sMerits will get a reset after the month is over. But we aren't talking about that here.

Merit sources have two types of sendable merits. The usual sMerits like everyone else, generated when someone merits your post, and source merits that go in a separate pool. They first have to spend all of their source merits to begin spending sMerits. If they never manage to do that because of big source merit allocations, merit sources will have a big amount of sMerits in their accounts that keeps growing but doesn't get spent or rarely gets spent.

When you said that, I got curious and researched other stuff that "does not decay" or "does not have a half-life". Interesting rabbit hole to go down. Aparently, it is one of the very few physical things in this universe/our reality that do not decay that we know of

Except that merits aren't physical.