I am not sure they are alts, however they are making a mockery of the trust (and merit) system.
How so?
As far as I see it, you are free to do what you want. It's your merit for a reason. You are correct, users should be able to do what you want with your merit.
Perhaps you missed the part in the OP that I was referring to:
Lately with the merit system coming out,[...] actmyname , have started giving red trust to people for sending merit to each other's account for reasons like : "Merit was sent literally minutes apart for inconsequential posts."
I'm still confused af. Atriz and Lauda work together, and they haven't given out insane amounts of merit, so what's the big deal? Mind I say Lauda hasn't even given trust to Atriz, so your logic of making a mockery doesn't help your argument.
Furthermore, what actmyname is pointing out is merits being given out to alt accounts, not "random people". If you don't like what he is doing, create a thread about it and debate his negative trust.
Atriz & Lauda IMO are not the same people, and here I quote Atriz to sum this up again:
Lauda deserves a lot more than 50 merits imo, I'm not bothered to go through every post and merit them, so I just picked one.