Nobody will judge you if the comment you gave sMerit for really deserves that, but is you are giving sMerits for shitposts that is going to be counted as abusing of Merit system. Next thing is exchanging Merits by a small group of people, especially with the same IP address, will awake a lot of questions and negative trust is provided. You see it is hard to prove to the forum that all of this profiles from the same IP address belong to different people, if you wish to avoid such unpleasant situation I recommend you to say to the cousin or other relative to comment from the phone'a internet, thanks god it works well almost in every city now.