I can't read Russian, but my first impression is that those posts aren't bad. So the merit could be deserved.
But i can. Despite I have good relationships with Zuzma, i can say that he is wrong here. Posts deserving merits, for honest.
It's obvious that every merit source will have some people to whom he gives more merit, it's normal. The same was with chimk or Vadi2323, despite they were good meritsources.
So i don't see any "abuse" or any another reasons to continue this topic.
abuse of merit began not so long ago, if you look at the photo above you will see that ratimov distributes bounties first of all to his comrades.
merits are also distributed for meaningless posts
For honest, i wouldn't be so categorical with labels like "his friends" or something like that. Also, post enough good to receive 1-2 merits.