Does sMerit actually Decay?

[Ashawowo(OS)]

There is an exception when it comes to merit sources. Theymos allocates each merit sources certain amount of sMerits every month, 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.

In my own thought there is nothing like resetting after a month is over, it is obtainable that after a 30 day period from the time a source sends a particular merit from his source balance, the used merits are refilled. I've read somewhere that it is an automatic process to refill for used ones after 30 days and the unused one remains there until used before the countdown for its refill starts. It is only that their max source sendables for a month is capped at their allocated amounts. A source can correct me if I'm wrong.

[DYING_S0UL]

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In my own thought there is nothing like resetting after a month is over, it is obtainable that after a 30 day period from the time a source sends a particular merit from his source balance, the used merits are refilled. I've read somewhere that it is an automatic process to refill for used ones after 30 days and the unused one remains there until used before the countdown for its refill starts. It is only that their max source sendables for a month is capped at their allocated amounts. A source can correct me if I'm wrong.

Maybe I don't know! I'm not a merit source, nor I have much knowledge on this, nor I have joined in much discussion on this. I wasn't on this forum when merit was first introduced. Aside for it's technical side, all I know is that whether you spend your source merits or not, it goes back to the allocated amount at the end of each month. This is how I thought it was..

Now, I won't derail the topic any further as OP is about the decaying of sMerits, not merit sources.

[The Cryptovator]

In my own thought there is nothing like resetting after a month is over, it is obtainable that after a 30 day period from the time a source sends a particular merit from his source balance, the used merits are refilled. I've read somewhere that it is an automatic process to refill for used ones after 30 days and the unused one remains there until used before the countdown for its refill starts. It is only that their max source sendables for a month is capped at their allocated amounts. A source can correct me if I'm wrong.

Unused merits for merit sources will decay. That means if you have 100 source merits and you spent only 50 merits on the monthly cycle, that means the remaining 50 merits will decay. Next month you will get only your allocation of 100 merits. I don't know when exactly refill decayed merits will be added, but your remaining merits won't be added to your source merits for the next month.

However, for general users, it will not decay for now. But the forum has the full right to decay or remove your merits anytime they want, and it's clearly stated on the merit page. So you shouldn't be confused about merits decay.

[tbct_mt2]

Unused merits for merit sources will decay. That means if you have 100 source merits and you spent only 50 merits on the monthly cycle, that means the remaining 50 merits will decay. Next month you will get only your allocation of 100 merits. I don't know when exactly refill decayed merits will be added, but your remaining merits won't be added to your source merits for the next month.

If all source merits are not used in 30 days, all of them will be decayed and new source merits will be refilled, it's the easiest case for understanding about source merit decay and refill.

I am not a merit source, but through posts of some merit sources when they wanted to merit a post but no longer had merit, they wrote like they had to wait for some days before their source merit refill that I think only partial refill, not like 30-day source merit refill. So I guess the source merit refill will be do day by day, not like waiting exactly 30 days for a refill.

Like if you send 10 merit today, next 30 days that 10 merit will be refilled.

[hosemary]

I don't know when exactly refill decayed merits will be added, but your remaining merits won't be added to your source merits for the next month.

Each source merit you spend will come back after 30 days.
For example, if you spend 5 source merit right now, you will receive 5 source merit exactly 30 days later.

But the forum has the full right to decay or remove your merits anytime they want, and it's clearly stated on the merit page. So you shouldn't be confused about merits decay.

You must have meant smerit, not merit.

[Cricktor]

What's the purpose of this topic and why apparently OP seems to be a bit search-phobic? It's not exactly rocket science to use the search function of the forum or use https://bitlist.co/search.

A very primitive search in topic titles reveals quite a bunch of threads (oldest to newest):
[IDEA] Instead of Decaying Unused sMerits why not Re-Allocate It
What do you mean by decay of merit points??
sMerit Decay system ?
Let Decay Default Merits
Does Decaying sMerits will be healthy for the forum?
@theymos, if you can decay merits, why can't you refill / recharge them?
Is there any way of knowing decayed smerits.
Merit decay
and of course this topic as the most recent one: Does sMerit actually Decay?

Some of those topics might not address OP's question properly, but I'm pretty sure I've read answers in them that are just repeated here.

If only topic starters would put in some effort to do a little bit of research upfront... 

[Decimetre]

What's the purpose of this topic and why apparently OP seems to be a bit search-phobic? It's not exactly rocket science to use the search function of the forum or use https://bitlist.co/search.

A very primitive search in topic titles reveals quite a bunch of threads (oldest to newest):
[IDEA] Instead of Decaying Unused sMerits why not Re-Allocate It
What do you mean by decay of merit points??
sMerit Decay system ?
Let Decay Default Merits
Does Decaying sMerits will be healthy for the forum?
@theymos, if you can decay merits, why can't you refill / recharge them?
Is there any way of knowing decayed smerits.
Merit decay
and of course this topic as the most recent one: Does sMerit actually Decay?

Some of those topics might not address OP's question properly, but I'm pretty sure I've read answers in them that are just repeated here.

If only topic starters would put in some effort to do a little bit of research upfront...  

I'm just seeing this. Well, I may not be too lazy to search the entire forum for a similar thread or to long for knowledge, I only know that when I ask, there will be multiple people willing to give a helpful reply. I must admit that I have not learned the forum search methodologies because I came in through someone who cares less about lengthy tutorials or maybe he doesn't know more than he had taught me (still thankful). I have got the knowledge I needed here and I appreciate you for adding more threads that have similar motive.

Beginners must never be discouraged from seeking the right knowledge in as much as I also don't encourage laziness too. Thanks for your concern.

[Kelward]

In my own thought there is nothing like resetting after a month is over, it is obtainable that after a 30 day period from the time a source sends a particular merit from his source balance, the used merits are refilled. I've read somewhere that it is an automatic process to refill for used ones after 30 days and the unused one remains there until used before the countdown for its refill starts. It is only that their max source sendables for a month is capped at their allocated amounts. A source can correct me if I'm wrong.

Unused merits for merit sources will decay. That means if you have 100 source merits and you spent only 50 merits on the monthly cycle, that means the remaining 50 merits will decay. Next month you will get only your allocation of 100 merits. I don't know when exactly refill decayed merits will be added, but your remaining merits won't be added to your source merits for the next month.

Thanks for this clarification and it justifiably should be so inorder for the merit sources not to hoard their merit allocations, so it is better for them to distribute everything within their timeframe. It wouldn't be fair for merit sources to hoard merit especially when they didn't earn it from other members because I believe that there are enough posts that should meet their quality requirements.

However, for general users, it will not decay for now. But the forum has the full right to decay or remove your merits anytime they want, and it's clearly stated on the merit page. So you shouldn't be confused about merits decay.

I don't see any good reasons why we should worry about the time when our merits would decay when we can give them out just like the merit sources, wanting to know about the decaying duration would imply that the holder perhaps planned to keep for a long duration. This forum's merit are not useful outside the forum so it is better to share as soon as possible unless you don't see posts that meets your quality standard which will be surprising.

[Alonso_]

I haven’t heard that Smerit usually decay, and I have never heard that from anywhere, but I feel it’s just a normal scenario to have a situation that we would think that merit sendable can decay, well anyways anything can happen in this forum, people that are in charge can do so many things that we might not have heard of in anyways, the most important thing is just, people who are merit sources and have been hoarding Smerits should be the once that we should be mostly concerned about them on how there dealings are going to happen most especially when you’re not hoarding merits so how do you know about any of the situation that we are talking about, absolutely no experience what so ever in this situation.

[knowngunman]

How many Smerit are you having left ? It should be 6 , if  your claim is true then you should still have upto 11merit. Proof it by spending the  11 Smerits on this post  or the thread itself.

Lol! And now you know, you can be penalised for merit begging 

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?

No. There was no such time. You probably missed your calculation and then assumed the five smerit came from nowhere. There's no such case unless there was a bug that only you noticed before it was fixed 

You can track your merit flow history (send and receive) in bpip.org next time.

Op, the purpose of that warning is to encourage merit circulation. You benefit nothing from hoarding it but rather deny the community from benefiting from it.

[promise444c5]

How many Smerit are you having left ? It should be 6 , if  your claim is true then you should still have upto 11merit. Proof it by spending the  11 Smerits on this post   or the thread itself.

Lol! And now you know, you can be penalised for merit begging  

Totally forgotten about that..