thanks, very helpful to me me

Great analysis man, as usual.
From 48K to 19K this is a big fall, idk if this is only because the initial sMerit now is almost totally distributed or because there are less quality posts.
Lets see if in the next month the number will fall under the merit source limit.

There were a lot of merit abuses in the first two months, I guess people got scared to send merit. There were many innocent that got tagged, tho. Well, there was no official announcement of the change, besides this thread and people just begin to try it as " no one reads the user manuals".
We need more time for full overview I think.

Well, quite agree with TheQuin. But if it is the initial merit, it should have been half from the 48k. If i made the calculation. Since the time of 48k, then 48k-18k(merits from sources) then we got 30k initial merit for that time right right? Then if we divide it by half, then it should be 15k initial merit circulated for the last calculation, and if we add it with merits from sources it should be 33K maximum for the last part, but it only 19k. There must be something wrong, and i bet it is the quality is not increasing that much. Well, it could be other problem tho.

Same, there are posts or threads that i would consider giveng merits too, but if i had more merit. Yeah, we need more merit sources, and i think sources diversity, like adding merit sources from specific rank, would add more movement in the merits circulation, because you know, sometimes higher rank member have high expectation and standard for a post that they end up didnt give the merit for the poster. I would say adding merit sources for specific rank will help this problem, but of course that sources candidate still should have the ability to distinguish between great posts and not.

But it is only my idea, and it has flaws too.

Well, that's the whole idea of the merit. If it's too easy then everyone will have it.

The first half is definitely the case, I don't have knowledge of the second part. But I think there are plenty of suitable people who would be happy to do it.

That's true and a fair conclusion to come to. I've seen a few sources complaining that it's too much work for them to find enough good posts but none saying they didn't want to be a source. I guess if any aren't interested they wouldn't spend their time posting about not being interested either.

With anxiety one of the most important steps to recovery is accepting it and not working against it.
With merit it quite the same for me. Accept that threads im interested in (altcoins) are not a place to gain merit.

If your here for money and commenting to get merit, you probably will not receive much. If your interested in topics where merit is not given out, you wont get merit.
All im "loosing" is a rank up and double reward from bounty. What i am gaining by not chasing merit is having a good time in the forum.

Maybe the sources should be higher than 80 with lower reward, not because some people feel they deserve merit but because the forum have gotten massive and 80 sources will not cover a fraction of the threads.
People interested in altcoins should just give up merit even with more sources though And that is ok