But I never objected to all that merit he sent out. He certainly had accumulated a massive number of sMerits by that point, and I don't often see Theymos giving out a lot of merits.
That was the 10 year celebration, and it was a nice landmark number and represented a decade of the forum being in existence. I don't think we need yearly celebrations by any means. Just my own little opinion, though.
Yea, same opinion. Giving chances to people isn't really that bad in terms of affecting the forum's content quality when done rarely, but doing it every year is probably going to have a bad effect. People would just be waiting for Bitcointalk's anniversaries if that was the case lol.