The following is what you sent me:

My answer is this:  You are an obvious shitposter; are probably an alt of Zandar; and you're obviously abusing the merit system with him.  There would be no other reason someone would leave you merits unless it was an alt, or a "friend", or was otherwise being traded  Same thing with the Zandar account.  In fact, Zandar says you two are friends in real life here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3162720.msg32983811#msg32983811, so it probably really is a buddy of your you're trading merits with--and not because the posts are merit-worthy.  Hence, my feedback.

If you think TMAN, Jet Cash, Foxpup, digaran, nullius, or anyone else is an alt (or a friend) of mine, you are free to leave a negative as you see fit and I won't complain about it in the least.  But I'll be the honest one here and say that I don't know any of them in real life and that there was absolutely no talk, arrangement, deal, or anything else between myself and anyone whom I've given or received merit from.  

I have respect for these users, and I tend to like what they say.  End of story.  We travel in the same circles on bitcointalk, but my given and received merits are not a case of friends "helping out" one another; nor are we shitposters; nor am I, at least, getting any benefit by receiving merits.  There's no more ranking up for me, and I've made it clear that I'm making it a point to hand out sMerits to lower-ranked users.  I've given out a lot, and the vast majority did not go to any of those users mentioned.