Just like you said, I'm not a merit source to start my own thread, but I honestly don't mind receiving pms. If they are not worth meriting, they won't receive any. Merit isn't supposed to be hoarded, but many users, including myself, do not use their sMerits to their fullest. Looking back on it, I should have spent more sendable merits. Don't get me wrong, if I see a worthwhile post, I'm definitely meriting, but sometimes I tend to forget the importance of sending as much as you possibly can. Certainly, it's not donating, since there is no use for myself, it's supposed to be sent. I never intended to hoard it. My time has been pretty limited the past few weeks, but I'm planning to spend all of it till the end of the month, hopefully helping a few worthy users to rank up.
I'm sure you've been skip quite a lot of quality posts lately especially when you go from thread to thread to create a post. I don't know how much time it takes you to send 1-5 merit per day, I don't think it will take more than 5 minutes if you really want to do it. But if you set a high standard for sending merit especially for those who discuss bitcoin technically, then I'm sure you should get used to doing it on the Development & Technical Discussion board.
My only advice, if you have merit then help those who need them. You can post 1-50 merit per one user in 30 days but if you want to help a lot of users then take a little of your time to get quality posts. I forgot that the merit is not only for those in need, but you are free to send it to any user and for any rank because theymos encourage people to post it on quality posts not on specific rank.
