I'm not a merit source but now that we're discussing the merit distribution, I've also neglected doing my part to the community, as I'm not distributing the smerits I've acquired. I will agree to an extent with @Alani123, I don't see too many quality posts from newer users, but just how Lucius pointed out, there's no way there aren't a handful of them that actually deserve to be merited; not necessarily with 50 points, I believe that's too much, but in general. And if my memory serves me right, there are a couple of users who have recently been approved as merit sources.
They're numerous quality posters in the forum, what i feel that is making some merit source not to observe some quality posters, maybe is as results of the boards They post, I observed that some merit sources doesn't consider a suggestion or a reply as quality post except that there's a new thread created.