Yeah, but good for Theymos for spending that many merits.  I've often thought that people who merit his posts are kind of wasting their own merits, since Theymos doesn't normally distribute that many of his own--and I say that because I don't see a lot of posts getting merited by him but haven't ever checked his merit-sending history.  This is a good move on his part, and he obviously thinks that the members making contributions to a thread that's basically celebrating the forum are doing a good job.  I'm all for his merit spree.

If it helps some members to rank up, I'm even more all for it.  I think it's gotten too hard for the lower ranks since the introduction of the merit system, and I think Theymos probably knows this as well.  I haven't looked at the ranks of the members he's meriting, but I will after this post and I hope a lot of them are lower ranked.

Edit:

Holy crap, I haven't really been following that thread but there are a ton of pages to it.  I checked the first couple ones and it does look like Theymos distributed a lot of merits to Jr. Member-Member ranks, which is great.  He certainly earned enough of his own merits for that OP, so it's good he's giving it back.

Past page 61, I might not merit the really-low-effort photoshops/template-fills anymore.