Exactly! People are free to merit whomever the please. If this rule applies to you, why does it not apply to the top 200 merit receivers/senders/sources or the Meta board, against which you seem to have some sort of personal vendetta?

Look, I agree that Altcoin Discussion needs to be improved, and I have no doubt that in amongst the piles and piles of shitposts there are a handful of good posters who go unrecognized. The fact is, no one has the time or energy to spend hours digging through 100+ pages of trash to find the one or two good posts worthy of a merit. If you want to improve things, then your energy would be better spent reporting posts for deletion and threads for locking than it would be rampaging in Meta against some perceived "inner circle of merits". Especially since theymos agrees with the whole "I will merit whomever I please" thing.