I also hope that all merit sources will maintain their strict rules when giving merits away. The forum does not need a new-era shitposters who will destroy what merit system and our community built up well so far.
It's an event, so what do we expect? And yeah right, some of those entries doesn't really deserve Merits if you ask me but still let's just consider this as part of the event, besides its only a matter of time when this issues might stop. Maybe tomorrow or the next day, the distribution of Merits will become normal again.
As for myself, there are some entries that I have missed, but I'm well focused on giving out Merits only to my fellow countrymen unless there are really quite good enough just like the works of ADAMA and dannybrown. Truly Fanstastic.
Let's just wait until the end of this week, then the next will be on Christmas, expect that to happen. So many bastards will get to it.