interesting to see the top 4 merit givers are already red trusted and merited about 200 newbie, i haven't check yet the merited post, so i can be wrong, but i guess this is not going to end up well
Gave them a quick look and it seems like a huge farm atleast for some of them.
I do not think that these posts could be considered as good even if we strecth it:
Allo the intervals between awards is suspucious.
The past red trust, the change of merit awarding behaviour shortly after new restrictions and the timing of merit awarding with 20 sec intervals is enough factors for me to think that it is farming after all.
The real question will the mods have time to investigate these kind of cases , will this behaviour reveal big farms or let them be,