Thanks for calling my attention, never thought of it that way but I get the point your are making and for transparency I'll resits the urge to do so on both thread. Never knew 1 or 2 merits could cause such harm as I have seen users who have earned a decent amount of merit still give me their votes meaning my merits haven't got anything to do with their decision (on both threads you speak off). I have seen users doing the same as some act of appreciation and just followed without having a second thought.

Be rest assured my actioned had no Ill intentions behind
it. I won't mind getting punished if the organizers feel that's the best thing to do and also I want to use this opportunity to bring to the awareness of users begging for votes in local board. Yeah I got notification because I was tagged in the replies and fortunately I got my translators always turned on.

I support the best interview to win it all and not popularity, personally I haven't voted because I took it upon myself to to read through the interview again and not get influence by people choices. Thought this could be the reason behind the votes