Op sent a merit to an account that has the same registered date as him: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1200534 Maingtoled1958 October 09, 2017
Coincidence?
Yeah, there's huge amounts of farming going on with Russians. Chinese are the worst though as there's a Chinese farmer with hundreds if not thousands of accounts. He was botting them though in the Chinese section but once they hit their rank they migrate out of there to join campaigns. I don't have a full list of them but I've banned hundreds over the years and just found another batch of them (40+) because they're now farming merit: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2998032.0
Coincidence?
Russian spammers are quite annoying. I'm waiting for someone to top the *~200 office employees* Russian spammer. Go whine somewhere else. 
Yeah, there's huge amounts of farming going on with Russians. Chinese are the worst though as there's a Chinese farmer with hundreds if not thousands of accounts. He was botting them though in the Chinese section but once they hit their rank they migrate out of there to join campaigns. I don't have a full list of them but I've banned hundreds over the years and just found another batch of them (40+) because they're now farming merit: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2998032.0