I've made a thread once on reputation thread after I found multiple accounts giving merits to the same accounts. The accounts that I reported didn't get red tagged though because when you make a report you have to link those accounts to get them tagged by a DT member which requires a lot of digging since the bctalkaccountpricer isn't up anymore.
On the positive side these abusers will eventually ran out of merits until they can't rank up anymore.
Merit system should be disabled, and bitcointalk should come to be unbaised fair platform. I am totally against merit sysytem, i hope it will change some day.
It won't get disabled because this will encourage both account farming and account sale which is frowned upon by most people here in the forum.
Even more annoying is the fact that members and above( not all of you ) just post crappy posts all over the place, and keep spamming away with no consequences. Its just sick, like in the real world, the rich get richer, its insane do something about it.
Greetings!

If you're annoyed about the spams you can help the moderators by using the report moderator button on the right side when you see posts that are spam or off topic.