After watching the "highest merit replies", I've noticed that a majority are in local Turkish or Russian topics, other languages are non existent or rare. Also, the comments that are given +50 merit, are usually some one liners. Has anyone looked into that or..?
Yes many such users were reported by other members. These were also given negative trust be senior members here. You can find all those cases reported here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2823221.0. Add those you saw if they are not reported.