This is really sad an unacceptable. I have noticed merit abusing (I have a topic where I investigate merit abusers, list them and tag them with the hope of the DT members see it) are out of control on local boards but never thought that case like this was possible.
The message was very clear from theymos...
Award merit to the bounty managers to show your appreciation of the project.
A service has been created purely for marketing, supporting that with merit from a merit source is questionable. Some of these bounty managers are the cancer of all spamming on the forum.
Of-course it's merit abuse and I hope other DT members and theymos will also see this thread and will give him/her a lesson
PS: I seen the user is a mod, I don't know if I am doing it right sending this message against him/her from my real account. I hope I am fine anyway.
Update: By the way OP, you seems new to the forum
But good job 
The message was very clear from theymos...
While we will not be directly moderating this, I encourage people to give merit to posts that are objectively high-quality, not just posts that you agree with.
But the translations from merit abusers really makes me ashamed. I guess I need to add another translation on my topic. A service has been created purely for marketing, supporting that with merit from a merit source is questionable. Some of these bounty managers are the cancer of all spamming on the forum.
To me, it smells like an abuse of merits.
Of-course it's merit abuse and I hope other DT members and theymos will also see this thread and will give him/her a lesson
PS: I seen the user is a mod, I don't know if I am doing it right sending this message against him/her from my real account. I hope I am fine anyway.
Update: By the way OP, you seems new to the forum
But good job