2. For a Legendary member, receiving Merit should have a restriction or (may be just) don't apply Merit for them
-Merit is a form of evaluating a good post. For a Legendary member however in terms of ranking up that merit just became a waste.
A lot of members here have suggested the same in different threads here about the merit system. Here is why the admin might have ruled this possibility:
1) He might have planned a future change to the system requiring certain number of merits for all ranks to maintain the current rank.
2) Since a members also gets some Smerits on receiving merits, it gives legendary member a chance to merit other members.
3. Accounts ever logged in or even has created from the same IP should not be able to merit each other at all.
-It's really possible that these people know each others personally, may be family members or so. They will obviously try to favour each others with merits.
I am not sure that this will work. There are so many ways to exploit this, I mean there are hundreds of free proxy. One can even buy dedicated IPs for multiple profiles. depending how much he is earning from his profile here.