I wish I have such problems as too many smerits
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Never happened to me, because I created some time ago a list of posts which I want to merit and is growing a lot faster as incoming merits.
Taking into consideration, that I awarded almost every post with only one merit, this OP strategy would be fully applicable, but I am not so good in hoarding merits, as a majority of members in this thread. Despite, I am in the 100 most merited club.
I think there are so many valuable posts on the forum, that there is just no need to go back, to previous awarded posts and merit them again.
Of course, different members have different reasons behind meriting this same posts a couple of times and are free to do what they wish, but taking into consideration, how many high-quality posts are still not merited, I would rather vouch for a different approach.
There are already special threads, were merit sources and other members are able to find not merited posts and members. Maybe this is a good place for search if one has a couple of merits to give away.
I have seen a great thread from
Suchmoon lately,
Users that you should merit. In this thread, every member can ask for a detailed list of his not merited or rarely merited members.
This thread is a great place to check if there are problems with too many smerits to give away in a short period of time.