I see LoyceV in this list and I'm sure he would not waste merit on meaningless comments/posts.
Interesting indeed! Last Friday, I had merited a total of 721 profiles (since the beginning of time, not just the last 180 days). If I combine this list with my (incomplete) data on banned accounts, it turns out I have merited 14 banned accounts (sorted: oldest accounts first):
1522. 34 Merit received by nuno12345 (#113099) from 9 unique users in 10 transactions 3586. 13 Merit received by ferall (#220521) from 8 unique users in 10 transactions 1198. 46 Merit received by Sowik (#598832) from 13 unique users in 14 transactions 399. 124 Merit received by ChiBitCTy (#904524) from 30 unique users in 59 transactions 3526. 13 Merit received by sebinator (#1155509) from 9 unique users in 9 transactions 140. 264 Merit received by zentdex (#1331637) from 87 unique users in 110 transactions 7331. 8 Merit received by meterse (#1712794) from 5 unique users in 6 transactions 13949. 2 Merit received by first_user111 (#1738518) from 2 unique users in 2 transactions 1251. 43 Merit received by reactorjuno (#1830776) from 21 unique users in 31 transactions 10798. 4 Merit received by Marcel555 (#1958456) from 4 unique users in 4 transactions 253. 172 Merit received by vphasitha01 (#2124069) from 49 unique users in 86 transactions 390. 127 Merit received by anunymint (#2189580) from 32 unique users in 57 transactions 10918. 4 Merit received by Fies7aa (#2448175) from 4 unique users in 4 transactions 14826. 2 Merit received by Snowflower11 (#2452371) from 2 unique users in 2 transactions
I just checked the posts, and I'm not ashamed of meriting any of those. I am surprised by some of the names that got banned though, several of them were good posters.