I'm not allowed to merit such a thread? Objectively it took effort to create regardless of whether it is right or wrong, and that's how merit should be used. Don't use your morality ... to pollute the system.
That sounds like the single most flimsy criteria for usage of the merit-system that I can think of. Do not use your morality, or value-judgement to decide which posts you would like to see more of; simply merit posts that objectively "took effort". That has
got to be a joke that had terrible delivery. If we were to use that criteria, then every try-hard newbie that spends an hour on their scheme to earn merit with a worthless post would be successful.
It would take effort to break into the address that was provided, but does that mean the action should be condoned? Maybe we should merit it, if they give us a play-by-play in a thread! So long as it took some effort.
The criteria has always been more than "effort".
On top of all of that, Nepotism is allowing a member to get away with something because of who they are. I can't imagine someone else walking away unscathed after DOXing and endangering the lives of multiple people; let alone be told that receiving merit for doing so is appropriate.
It's an example of someone meriting a post you don't like. You'll get over it.
It's more an example of someone encouraging another user to endanger the lives of potentially innocent bystanders.
Where I am from, if you scream to the public "That guy has a lot of money! This is where he sleeps!" guess who ends up naked and robbed in a burning building? It doesn't matter if he actually has money, or if that's even where he sleeps. It's not cute and it is not a game; you can get people hurt like this.