I noticed ivanst776 has been sending a lot of merits for posts that were basically shitposts, but I'm still on the fence about how much of a transgression it is to do so, and I never said anything.   

Glad you started this thread--ironically, I would give OP some merit but I ran out of them. 

I would totally not be disappointed if a DT member tagged all of these users. I feel strongly that shitposters should not "earn" enough merit to rank up, and certainly that these shmucks didn't deserve even 2 merits for any of their posts, much less 10 or 20.  That's insane.