The Merit system is broken, very few people actually send merit to valuable posts, the vast majority of it gets circulated between old timers who know eachother personally on
the forum, and it doesn't help that most of these guys are on the Bitcoin related forums;
so while altcoin proponents now probably outnumber the Bitcoin maximalists, the merit distribution is disproportionately in favor of Bitcoin sympathizers...
Your assassination is wrong and prejudiced. When you make such conclusions, you should be prepared to back up with facts. Merit system is working and people here reward quality contributions. It does not matter if such persons know themselves or not. What counts is the quality of the post.