It was a tough call on this one, because two (and only two) of the posts made by Sudhik were actually pretty decent, and these might have deserved merit.  This is why I was so on the fence when the merit system got implemented, about whether people should get tagged for merit trading.  There's so much subjectivity involved, and if you look at my own received merits, you'd probably think I'm buying them from TMAN or Foxpup. 

My strong opinion, though, is that anyone north of Antarctica who knows about bitcointalk knows how important merit is, and these shitposters know how valuable it is and don't hand it out willy-nilly.  And it's a bit hard to believe that users like Sudhik and acha1217 would just exchange it like they did.  I'm not saying it would be impossible, just improbable, and that's why I left my feedback.

I'd like to hear honest opinions from DT members here.  If they think I've left my feedback in error I'll reconsider it.

theymos makes the point perfectly. We don't want to be dishing out negative trusts right, left and center as this doesn't achieve anything and more often than not results in a false positive. Think of it as a person rather than account, and how you wouldn't be so trigger happy at someone for committing a petty crime.

If it's Blatantly obvious and it's becoming a problem then we can have a look at the situation together over in the reputation section on a case by case basis.