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 its possibility and timeframe.
Since when I came to this forum I’ve never heard of or seen anything about smerits decaying and I don’t think I has ever happen, from the replies you’ve got above I’m sure you’ve clear your curiosity about this topic.
Yes mate, I think I'm fed already, the knowledge gap is closed already and I can say that I got a good explanation to what I asked. Sometimes we only assume to know without truly knowing anything. The early days I read the write up was when I started monitoring my sMerit thinking it would decay but it wasn't happening. Each day when I still click to send a merit, I read the same thing. But now, it's clear that sMerit doesn't decay, except for administrative reasons/decisions.
Well from my perspective, I think this particular phrase was added there to emphasize why hoarding smerits isn’t a good thing because there’s a very good possibility that it can decay if you continue hoarding it and that’s why it’s not profitable, it wouldn’t benefits you and you don’t have the assurance that it will forever be there, so you rather spend it on post you find worthy..
Well I already learnt that sMerit does not decay so you won't confuse me anymore. I have seen somewhere that I read that Merit has no formula but based on individual perceptions about a post. Therefore one may not establish if another is hoarding his sMerit or actually has not found your post merit worthy. If there was a general standard, you can hold anyone accountable for not meriting a post.
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.
Well this is news to me. I mean I knew there were 2 types of sMerits when it comes to merit sources, but the way they worked was totally unknown to me. The fact about, merit sources spending their allocated sMerits before they could spend the earned sMerit, I wasn't aware of it. I'm curious about how does the whole interface looks like, I mean like does it says, "You have X amount of allocated source sMerits, and Y amount of earned sMerit remain"? Also, how much a merit source typically gets? (referring to a range like 100-500-1000, not any specific amount).
Learning is continuous mate. I'm glad that a Legend learned something new out of my curiosity and I feel fly. The merit system must be more complicated than we all see or understand.
