Take a note of who left merits too. Hey I thought leaving "political" oriented merits was not ok.
I don't know why you think that those merits are political oriented. There's no way to be agree with this i think. Merit doesn't mean alltime support. I always prefer to give someone merits only for his quality works. It doesn't mean that i will support him in every single time in the future. If i find him done something which doesn't meet the rules of forum i will definitely raise my hand against him.
It doesn't really matter, it is just yet another example of how the rules are for some but not for others around here. There needs to be an objective standard set around here for trust ratings or else the community will continue to eat its own face. Eventually it will go past the point of no return. The trust system is too easily corruptible and open to unaccountable abuse. There is no reason people can not leave neutral ratings an open threads if they want to warn people of users rather than negative rating them without evidence of theft, violation of contractual agreement, or violation of applicable laws.