I am not a merit source (I planned to make my source application on the beautiful day 02/02/2020 but I did not finish it as consequence of something unexpected) but I have my strategies to do if I am a source:
- Setting up a max cap of daily smerits will be given away.
- Filling the gaps of un-used sMerits of previous days (if you don't find good posts to give away)
- Never pre-use your self-allocated sMerits.
I could be wrong but obeying these rules will help you lifting up the level of quality of posts you will give your sMerits on. For example, if I set up my daily cap at 5, I must find only 5 best posts each day to send my 5 sMerits to. There are days you find many good posts (more than 5, and you will have to choose the best 5) and days you did not find a single good post.
I have some statistics for your local (all outdated ones).
Your local is the sixth most actively local boards on the forum, based on statistics.
Based on the criteria, the top 5 active local boards are:
- Russian: 1505 posts/day
- Indonesian: 545 posts/day
- Turkish: 376 posts/day
- Chinese: 213 posts/day
- Pilipinas: 174 posts/day
There are two sets of criteria but I would like to choose the rankpost. There is no reasons for now to combine two criteria sets.
Details: +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| rankpost ranktopic boardname npost_daily ntopics_daily npost ntopics daysbetween birthday today |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
1. | 1 1 Russian 1356.2 36.3 4626017 123808 3411 28jul2010 29nov2019 |
2. | 2 5 Indonesian 545 6.5 1049600 12574 1926 21aug2014 29nov2019 |
3. | 3 3 Turkish 375.2 16 889951 38038 2372 01jun2013 29nov2019 |
4. | 4 2 Chinese 212.9 28.9 658643 89330 3093 11jun2011 29nov2019 |
5. | 5 6 Pilipinas 173.4 5.5 241878 7642 1395 03feb2016 29nov2019 |
Ranks in total posts per day (ntopics_daily):
+------------------------------------------+
| ranktopic boardname ntopics_daily |
|------------------------------------------|
1. | 1 Russian 36.3 |
2. | 2 Chinese 28.9 |
3. | 3 Turkish 16 |
4. | 4 German 7.8 |
5. | 5 Indonesian 6.5 |
|------------------------------------------|
6. | 6 Pilipinas 5.5 |
In median, there are 7 merits distributed daily on your board (it is an outdate figure, and I guess the statistics has been risen recent months, but not too significantly).
6. Pilipinas variable | N mean sd p50 p25 p75 min max
-------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
merit | 555.0 11.8 18.9 7.0 3.0 15.0 1.0 331.0
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Outliers are days have intra-day merits above
33.
. di 15-3
12
. di 12*1.5
18
. di 15 + 18
33
Most of outliers occured
since the April of 2019. Lots of effects from merit sources in that board, definitely.
+-------------------+
| date merit |
|-------------------|
2. | 26jan2018 48 |
3. | 27jan2018 46 |
5. | 29jan2018 33 |
6. | 30jan2018 51 |
72. | 08apr2018 52 |
75. | 12apr2018 55 |
85. | 24apr2018 46 |
133. | 19jun2018 64 |
155. | 11jul2018 83 |
|-------------------|
329. | 26apr2019 36 |
347. | 15may2019 61 |
352. | 20may2019 37 |
370. | 07jun2019 40 |
372. | 09jun2019 331 |
375. | 12jun2019 51 |
376. | 13jun2019 40 |
377. | 14jun2019 48 |
378. | 15jun2019 47 |
383. | 20jun2019 34 |
409. | 17jul2019 39 |
413. | 21jul2019 84 |
420. | 28jul2019 36 |
421. | 29jul2019 65 |
441. | 18aug2019 90 |
478. | 26sep2019 92 |
482. | 30sep2019 33 |
483. | 01oct2019 38 |
488. | 06oct2019 61 |
495. | 13oct2019 34 |
497. | 15oct2019 40 |
500. | 18oct2019 41 |
514. | 01nov2019 55 |
520. | 07nov2019 38 |
522. | 09nov2019 33 |
539. | 26nov2019 61 |
540. | 27nov2019 53 |
+-------------------+
and theymos listen to the need of more smerits. Many in our Local users are probably waiting for you too. Lots of good posts are stuck with 0 merits. Hope some merit sources go there for some quick visit. ( I have also lots of local post without merits) Anyway, I will also spend some again if merit spree comes underway. 
But look, you act like a pre-programmed robot 
whenever I see posts from you, it will be statistics, analysis, calculations and data, ... WHY??? 
We are human, let's act based on our emotions and thoughts, don't work like a robot, figures are not everything, there are no rules here. 
