Now to the 2nd part.
I am curious as to why these members have not sent a single merit to other users since the introduction of the merit system. They are active on the forum, reading and posting and have received 1000s of merits.
I can think of a couple of reasons:
1. They dont care about receiving/sending Merits at all and dont want to be part of it.
I sent various merits to Plutosky, and noticing he never sent Merits to anyone I asked him why.
"I don't like Merit System so I don't send merits to anyone"
It was the first and only one moment when i wasn't agreeing with Plutosky.
I basically stopped sending him merits, even when he write good posts, saving merits for those who want to be engaged in this system (I do like).