I don't care how hard he worked on it.
As a merit source, I think you should care.
This is egregious abuse of merit, awarding merit for political reasons rather than any idea of quality. You are no longer a merit source, and your recent sends have been effectively undone.
It's still a rambling, poorly-written wall of text, and I don't reward posts like that. He's lucky he didn't get banned because of that plagiarism incident, and I agree with rickbig41 that he ought to pack up and leave. And hey, if other merit sources or anyone else with sMerits to give (including yourself) want to merit Rambotnic's post, you're absolutely free to.
What was the egregious abuse of merit? I don't remember that incident, who you gave merits to, etc.