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Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't all merits awarded before OgNasty address info was released by Vod?
As far as I remember Vod's thread was for unpaid taxes, investigation being held outside of bitcointalk and stuff like that, a single post and a locked thread.
Merits were given within 24hrs and address info was put there at least 2-3 days later, correct?
My point is, when these four people merited Vod's thread, there was no DOX at hand.
It was actually the other way around - full dox were posted first, then most if not all personal info was removed after.
merit was given while dox was on the post, this is why I sat on it for awhile and decided to red tag later. If merit were given after the dox was edited, I would have taken that as a meriter "compliment" to Vod for doing the correct thing.. unfortunately that was not the case.
dox -> merit -> edit