Awww! It was good for a while.
Congratulations to the happy couple! So this is how the merit system looks like in practise:
aTriz rewarding Lauda with 50 merit points for a 'shitpost' (not my choice of word, but often used by those type of people) like this:
Half an hour later Lauda answering aTriz with 20 merit points only for opening a simple bounty thread in November:
Klaaas also wanted to get merit with Lauda and gave his all away for only one commercial opening post:
Link:

Does anyone doubt that any member outside the established circle would get tagged red for such merit farming?
This is just one example of what I mean when I write about abuse of the merit system and abuse of the trust system by the established members. And now aTriz is thrown under the bus, lest the mastermind gets burned too.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=135920